Category: Christology
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AI and the Shroud of Turin
Here. Linkage does not constitute endorsement. I haven't watched the video at the time of this posting.
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The One Man Who Pre-Exists his Birth
Christianity is curiously Platonistic about Christ: he is the one man who pre-exists his conception and birth. "Before Abraham was, I am." (John 8:58) But no such Platonism about any other human, not even Mary, Theotokos (God-bearer). If, as Chalcedonian orthodoxy has it, Jesus Christ is fully man and fully God, then he is man…
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If you can accept that a particular man is God . . .
. . . then why can't you accept that the God of the philosophers is the God of the Bible? And isn't the second acceptance easier than the first? A question for Pascal.
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Incarnation: A Mystical Approach
A Substack meditation for Christmas Day drawing upon Thomas Aquinas, Juan de la Cruz, and Josef Pieper.
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Physicalist Christology?
Notes on Merricks. Substack latest.
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An Overlooked Argument for the Resurrection
Michael J. Kruger In my jargon, the argument is rationally acceptable, but not rationally compelling (rationally coercive, philosophically dispositive). There is no getting around the fact that, in the end, you must decide what you will believe and how you will live. In the end: after due doxastic diligence has been exercised and all the…
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The Two Natures and the Real Presence: A Note on Frithjof Schuon
I have been reading Frithjof Schuon off and on since the mid-'70s. But this is my first weblog entry that mentions him. I don't expect it will be my last. The orthodox, Chalcedonian, view of Christ is that he is at once fully divine and fully human, true God and true man, and thus one…
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Another Theological Conundrum: Hypostatic Union and the Contingency of the Incarnation
In the immediately preceding theological thread, Dr. Caiati reminded me of Fr. Thomas Joseph White's The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology (CUA Press, 2017). So I cracked open my copy and found some notes from October 2018, one batch of which I will now turn into a weblog entry. 'Hypostatic Union' ". .…