I recall one of my theology professors using the phrase “already, but not yet,” to explain the concept of the kingdom of heaven on earth. For Christians this has already arrived in one important sense with the deep incarnation of the Christ.1 The God with skin on man from Galilee was all about the incoming […]
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It’s the heart, the heart, the damn heart, comrades, that is the star of the spiritual show. If you’ve had a bit of a browse at my last few posts, you’ll have picked up on the “changed-heart theme.” From Aristotle through to the mighty Hebrews prophets, it really is all about the heart. Ultimately, on
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If, like me, you regularly howl at the moon, you might just be suffering from a severe case of what the Hebrews called hard-heartedness. In my last post I identified the emphasis that Aristotle, the father of western philosophy, placed on the heart, as the “seat of the soul and the source of reason”. When
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Sometimes you’ve just gotta get away with the pixies to see the real deal of the world. There is no doubt that religious sensibility has been in steep decline for decades now in the West. The much studied sociologist Max Weber had effectively predicated this in 1917, with his oft quoted and deeply insightful observation.
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