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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    Eschatology, according to Benedict XVI, Jesus of Nazareth, part II, is about living here and now today, because Eternal Life just means Life, and Life is so great it can face down death! I think it wa

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  • The moral challenge posed to religious orders about the cost of redress.

    April 5 2017
    Francis

    The difference between the way the residential scheme was handled in the Republic and the North is glaring. I felt the Northern approach, while awful to read, was more balanced, understanding, and rou

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Con Devree

    Could Sean and Joe cut to the chase? Is eschatology, in the new evolved awakening, now a matter of two last things - death and heaven?

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Rory O'Connor

    It is so refreshing to read Tony Flannery's analysis on the issues faced today by Irish Catholics. Personally I am totally in agreement with his analysis. I was at a mass last Sunday and the homily

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    the tenants is the most disturbing parable because of antisemitic potential, so I am happy to hear of Schwager's interpretation

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    JohnM

    An excellent piece. The most complex organism in the universe is probably the human brain. An everyone has one. So why not use it?

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Sean O'Conaill

    #22 Accepted, Joe. Yet can Lutherans today more easily believe that: a) Jesus came to change the Father's wrathful mind about us, or b) Jesus came to change our mind about the Father, who was alway

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    When primitive humanity got the notion of gods they shivered with fear, as Lucretius tells us (his answer was that the gods have no interest in us, so just enjoy life). Religion, he says, added a new

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Joe O'Leary

    For millions Luther is the one who showed the Gospel to be a liberating message of a gracious God. Yes, we are condemned by God's holy Law and quake in terror of Hell. but Luther shows that this is ov

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  • The Language of Doctrine

    March 30 2017
    Kevin Walters

    Sean O'Conaill @20 "It is Jesus ‘obedient and forgiving sacrifice’ that allows us to see this pattern – but to see the Father as in any way abetting the crucifixion out of a wrathful need for ap

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