Moral Perfection
“Imagine the case of a morally perfect human being – one who has never committed an infraction of the “moral law.” To the surprise of...
Abstraction
“One of the competing philosophies opposed to Christian thinking from antiquity is dualism, which was very prevalent in the ancient...
Deification
“Self-deification [through culture] is not life-giving but . . . death-bringing.” (Vigen Guroian) “…the whole of our journey through life...
Utopia
“Throughout human history, the existence of evil spirits has been something so obvious that it is practically a universal constant across...
Desire
“Desire is transformed into lust when we exclude God from the picture. Without God, the natural powers of our soul become corrupt. Abba...
Life (of the World)
“…properly theological cosmology and “history” of salvation—the economy or the plan of salvation—begins with the Passion of Christ, and...
God (With or Without)
“Precisely because of the excision of God from our life, or at least the marginalization of him, we’ve become convinced that everything’s...
Worship (Misguided)
“…here is the tragedy of human existence…humans gave up their calling as priests of the world to become the slaves of the world…Thus, in...
Battle/Fight Within
“Christianity has always meant an opposition to and a fight with this world – a fight, let me stress it again, which is primarily, if not...
Transcendence
“…our age is haunted. On the one hand, we live under a brass heaven, ensconced in immanence. We live in the twilight of both gods and...