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Teofrastus posted the thread What explains contemporary hostility toward Western civilization? in General Politics.The motif of dismantling Western civilization gained traction in American universities through the claim that it was a fabrication...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Was Paul Using Pagan Conceptual Categories?.Paul's theology wasn't untouched by Greek thought. He lived and worked in a thoroughly Hellenistic world, wrote in Greek, quoted Greek...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Was Paul Using Pagan Conceptual Categories?.The pagan author Celsus (2nd century), in his work The True Doctrine, claimed that the beings Christians call angels are actually the...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Was Paul Using Pagan Conceptual Categories?.Paul communicates Christological and eschatological claims in a world where Jewish, Greek, and Roman conceptual vocabularies overlap...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Was Paul Using Pagan Conceptual Categories?.One could argue that, because Paul’s congregations were spiritually immature and shaped by Graeco‑Roman religious ideas, he expressed...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Was Paul Using Pagan Conceptual Categories?.Litwa contends that Paul's mode of assimilation is corporeal: believers take on Christ's glorified, pneumatic body and thus receive an...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Was Paul Using Pagan Conceptual Categories?.Simply asserting that pagans lacked spiritual truth doesn't address the textual question: does Paul describe an actual pneumatic...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread Anyone have good arguments against Calvinism..Read Christ is All: No Sanctification by the Law by David H.J. Gay. It's a brutal critique of Calvinism. It's only $1.05 on Amazon.
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In We Are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul’s Soteriology, M. David Litwa argues that Paul describes the pneuma (breath, spirit)...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread The Immanentized Kingdom: Magnifica Humanitas and the Loss of the Ascension.Landa writes: If truth be told, certain conservative critics of liberalism did occasionally emphasize, and with evident relish, the...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread The Immanentized Kingdom: Magnifica Humanitas and the Loss of the Ascension.Yes, pursuing Christian virtue "for its own sake" amounts to an ideologization of Christianity, and ideology itself is a symptom of the...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread The Immanentized Kingdom: Magnifica Humanitas and the Loss of the Ascension.Helping widows and the poor is not an example of virtues gone mad. The pope's broader social and humanistic global project, however...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread The Immanentized Kingdom: Magnifica Humanitas and the Loss of the Ascension.Indeed, while the policy proposals are clearly liberal-humanitarian, the Pope also invokes classical Christian metaphysics. The problem...
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Teofrastus replied to the thread The Immanentized Kingdom: Magnifica Humanitas and the Loss of the Ascension.The Bible also says: "Do not be overly righteous... why destroy yourself?" (Eccl. 7:16). Rabbinic tradition interprets this as a warning...
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