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The divine is now absent from the world. Isn't that simply a fact? We have become thoroughly secularized. Is this the hidden problem for...

The apostles were not serene, confident mystics awaiting resurrection. They were shattered human beings, and the New Testament is...

It was the Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar who introduced the idea that we are actors on the stage of God's drama. The...

He left the apostles, and it shattered them. They had not anticipated it. But then Pentecost came, and the Holy Spirit descended. That...

The words are heavy with meaning. The Fall was thereby brought to completion, and humanity gradually came to perceive the cosmos as...

Jesus's cry of dereliction is not simply an act of identifying with Psalm 22 in faithful obedience, but the moment in which divine...

Divine enchantment is the experience of reality as permeated, animated, or illuminated by the presence of the divine — a state in which...

Satan, as the tradition holds, inaugurated the primordial Fall, producing not a total rupture but a partial alienation of creation from...

Christ's cry of dereliction ("My God, why have you forsaken me?") represents the precise moment of cosmic disillusion when Satan's...

Is this attitude biblical?

What I say is entirely compatible with the biblical message. If we're not supposed to think, why did God give us an intellectual faculty?

I propose an atonement model that interprets Christ's redemptive work through the dynamic of cosmic disenchantment, integrating several...