One of my epistemological assumptions is that truth is truth is truth, and thus the physical sciences and social sciences can help inform theological truths
Category: Public theology
What are the boundaries of orthodoxy?
How wide or narrow is the scope of what is considered to be the “Doctrine” held by the Church? When does a difference of interpretation of the Creeds become heresy and who gets to decide? And why do they get to be the ones to decide?
Language and our perception of reality: reflections on the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis
I recently finished The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux. This is another in the
Neurophysiology, the multiverse, and spirituality
CAUTION: SPOILERS AHEAD
Daily office commentary, Galatians 3:18-27; “Obviously [Christianity] was not a firsthand encounter with God. It was arranged by angelic messengers through a middleman, [Jesus].”
A common theme of the New Testament is the dueling contrasts of the Hebrew “law”: the dominant interpretation as embodied in Jewish culture and religion
Daily office commentary, Mark 12:28-34; living the most important commandments through proper use of our religions
28Â One of the religion scholars came up. Hearing the lively exchanges of question and answer and seeing how sharp Jesus was in his answers, he
Hazelnut Notes 