Rationalchristiandiscernment

The Catholic doctrine of Mary’s perpetual virginity rests on a set of assumptions that collapse once examined outside the closed interpretive world of the Catholic Church. The claim is not grounded in Scripture, nor in historical necessity, nor in coherent theological reasoning. It is grounded instead in a symbolic ideal that later hardened into dogma. The first difficulty ...

   The Book of Habakkuk is a classic example of what we would call a theodicy. It serves as a defense of the goodness of God in the midst of evil. A theodicy aims to solve the paradox of His general providence in a world of pain and misery. How could an all-loving, all-knowing, all-powerful God allow us to go through bad things? Why do evil people seem to prosper whil...

    "Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that y...