“In the eyes of the ancients, to be a-theos was to be outside the civilizational circle of the civitas. To be an atheist was to be a subversive undermining the social order. The atheist was a security risk, if not a traitor. Christians were thought to be atheists precisely because they professed the God who… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“American theology has suffered from an ecclesiological deficit, leading to an ecclesiological substitution of America of the Church through time. Alongside this development, and weaving its way in and out of it, is a radical and vaulting individualism that would transcend the creaturely limits of time, space, tradition, authority, and obedience to received truth.” Richard… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
“The temptation to worship false gods usually presents itself in subtle forms. It does not usually announce itself with the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music.” Richard John Neuhaus, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile (New York: Basic, 2009), 20.
November 24, 2010
“When the Devil goeth about like a roaring lion, he goeth about in a shape by which few but savages and hunters are attracted. But, when he is trimmed, smoothed, and varnished, according to the mode; when he is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as… [Read more…]
November 3, 2010
“Xavier, though the sign on your door indicates that you’re a priest, the fact is that you’re really a magician. You claim to be able to share the message of salvation with people — a message found in, and transmitted through a book for which you have apparently little respect. The Bible is the bridge… [Read more…]
November 3, 2010
“Beware of men whose gods are in the sky.” Contrasting cultures with agricultural gods, Carroll Quigley, professor of history, Georgetown; cited in Marc Mailloux, God Still Loves the French: Adventures of a Missionary to France (Longwood, Florida: Xulon, 2006), 22.
September 6, 2011
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