Tertullian, Novatian, and the Jansenists, have often been accused of being rigorists and sparse with the divine grace and forgiveness. In particular the former two Church Fathers have considered certain…

The Material Conditions for Medieval Superstitions It has been rightly noted that “New Atheism” is mostly a Western educated and privileged phenomenon. It is obviously easy to spew invectives against…

No, Prime Minister, a clarification is not to make oneself clear. It is to put oneself in the clear. -Sir Humphrey Appleby, Yes, Prime Minister: The Tangled Web The High…

A seventh [Law of Nature] is, that in revenges, (that is, retribution of evil for evil,) men look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of…

The same subject-matter is discussed over and over again by the heretics and the philosophers; the same arguments are involved. Whence comes evil? Why is it permitted? What is the…

Despite the common mantra that we have only one life and that we must squeeze every last experience or pleasure or “live life to the fullest”, the Christian cannot live…

I remember attending a Bible study once where we had a discussion about heaven and one of my friends said that she would often day dream about how to decorate…

When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared…

I am currently reading Keith Thomas’s Religion and the Decline of Magic and it has been a very fascinating book so far. It is basically a historical analysis of the religious…

We believe, that we ought diligently and circumspectly to discern from the Word of God which is the true Church, since all sects which are in the world assume to…