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    A Personal Creed

    Don't you think that the true Church is what churches prior to the Great Schism believed in? I was raised a Catholic, but am sensitive to certain things that have gone on in the Church. I think Martin Luther, by making a distinction between the Law and the Gospel, makes a good point about why...
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    A Personal Creed

    Well, I can give a few ideas... The Old Testament, of course, should be taken into account, but focus IMO should be on the following books: Genesis, Exodus, Kings, The Prayer of Manasseh, 4 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Sirach, The Song of Songs, Wisdom, Isaiah, Lamentations...
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    A Personal Creed

    I consider it a spiritual exercise. God is not absurd. I'm using the term absurdity in the sense that life is confusing and meaningless without conforming to God's will, as understood by Ecclesiastes and the Prophets. And as far as baptism goes, I'd say that we can root out our own opinions...
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    A Personal Creed

    I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible, whose eternal purpose breathes meaning into the world, whose will calls me to authentic being. I believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. Through Him all things were made...
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    My Favorite Theologians

    What follows is some of my favorite theologians that have influenced me. John Duns Scotus (after formally studying Thomism for three years, when I learned about the Scotist understanding of the Will having primacy over the Intellect and how natural law even though it is found outside of...
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    Confucius and Christ: Chinese Philosophy and Christianity in Dialogue

    Probably one of my favorite apolegetical works.
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    An Argument for a Christian Humanism based upon the Philosophies of Scotism, Stoicism, and Confucianism

    Christian humanism, historically understood as a movement that reconciles Christian theology with human dignity and intellectual inquiry, offers a rich framework for addressing contemporary ethical and existential challenges. I propose that an articulate version of this is possible by...
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    Favorite Comments

    Just a few: The universe is change; Our life is what our thoughts make it. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, bk. 4) Be straightforward. Look at things like a man, like a human being, like a citizen, like a mortal. (Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, bk. 4) Death hangs over thee. While thou livest...
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    If the Gospel was False... What Then???

    And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty (1 Corinthians 15:14). If the Gospel were false, Stoicism and Confucian-Daoist philosophy represent humanity’s best hope for an ordered, virtuous, and meaningful life. They echo Jesus’ ethical teachings through...
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    Confucius and Christ: Chinese Philosophy and Christianity in Dialogue

    Don’t you think that if Christ is the word of God made flesh then other cultures in the world would get just a slight glimpse of Him before His coming? And you say “See Him for who He is” and ask me to avoid a lens. There was no Bible before 397 AD. The Nicene Creed came around in 325 as an...
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    Confucius and Christ: Chinese Philosophy and Christianity in Dialogue

    Seneca, the Stoic philosopher, writes about a Holy Spirit being in all of us. I see your point, but you accused me once before of trying to merge Christianity with Buddhism while I was simply suggesting it as a lens. Certainly you must see where I am coming from.
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    Confucius and Christ: Chinese Philosophy and Christianity in Dialogue

    A hobby of mine since the age of fourteen has been reading philosophy and in college, majoring in history and minoring in philosophy, I became very interested in existentialism (Kierkegaard all the way; I found Sartre unbelievably boring and dry). I ended up taking a course in Chinese philosophy...
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    Some wisdom from Fr. Thomas Merton

    "St. Paul is without a doubt one of the greatest attackers of religious alienation. Alienation is the theme of the Epistle to the Romans and the Epistle to the Galatians, and it is something worth knowing about… When you stop and think a little bit about St. Benedict’s concept of conversio morum...
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    Stoic, Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Buddhist, and Vedantist arguments for Christianity

    I should have pointed that out; Buddhism obviously believes that there are good or wholesome desires and that craving is an unwholesome or disordered one (or the root of all other disordered desires).
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    Stoic, Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, Buddhist, and Vedantist arguments for Christianity

    Buddhism, I think, while much of its fundamentals are to be praised, is the toughest to deal with for two reasons. Firstly, there is no creator god. Sure, the more theistic forms of Buddhism have a deity promising salvation according to them, but this deity is not a first cause. And secondly...
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