A Perennial Digression

Welcome back to Sunday Saunter, a first-day-of-the-week series I started last year where I try to give the arguments behind some things I often assume in various posts I make on the blog as non-circuitously as possible. Today, I’m going to try and explain why over the last two years I’ve found myself accepting a version of the Farrer hypothesis—that is, the argument that the ...

And in the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the flesh,
and the life everlasting. Amen.

All that Christians confess of Jesus as Christ, Son of God, and Lord is in some way distinctively Christian and also, in some way, a statement of what we think it is to be human. We...

Across the first ten chapters of The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo has w...

In the last segment, we treated the essential Christian kerygma of Jesus as Christ, Son of God, and Lord. This is the essence of distinctively Christian confession. While Jews, Christians, and Muslims share faith in the God of Abraham, and Christians and Muslims have a shared devotion to Jesus as prophet and Messiah or Christ of Israel, only Christians al...

This post continues the “Throwback Thursday” concept I borrowed to write a...