Jun
16
Beyond being: Postmodern theology and Islamic thought
June 16, 2009 | 6 Comments
Interesting things written by the redoubtable mentality of the one worthy author at Voix Nouveau.
Now, strikingly the author has placed some goods for the mind, juices from the thinking of Jean-Luc Marion and his theology of giveness. While ascribed to a post-modern thought the idea that “God” is actually beyond being is a strangely Islamic [...]
Jun
14
Knocked Up: Contessa Brewer is a disgrace to women
June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Recent exchange between Contessa Brewer and John Ziegler was disturbing in more ways than one, most disturbing was Contessa Brewer’s apparent lack of moral compass. Her attitude towards the shamelessly perverse “joke” told by Comedian so-called David Letterman about Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter being “knocked up” by baseball player Alex Rodriguez. As disgusting and repugnant [...]
Jun
7
When does human life begin: asking the wrong question
June 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
A frequent question in the pro-life rhetoric is to challenge the opposition, the pro-abortion/pro-choice camp, with the question of “when does human life begin”. I will say this is entirely the wrong question and one which has no answer except to say that it is based a fallacy, the wrong premise that somehow in this [...]
Jun
2
Holiness: Catholic and Sacred
June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Holiness: we are thus commanded to be Holy, but what does it mean?
Saint Athanasius wrote: ”For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: ”The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.” CCC 460
This is [...]
