Father Michael Heinrich Weninger, a member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and also an Austrian Freemason – belonging to the Grand Lodge of Austria AF&AM (Ancient Free and Accepted Masons)
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That the “Christusanrede” in the liturgy of St. Gregory functions as a way to portray anti-Arian theology is confirmed by other elements of the text. One interesting example of this is in the final prayer of the liturgy, the Εὐχὴ τῆς κεφαλοκλισίας.
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Nascent Christianity dealt with a number of growing pains, especially in how to express the relationship of the persons of the Trinity to one another. The difficulty in expressing this resulted in a number of major theological controversies, collectively known as the Christological controversies.
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[the-subtitle] he Diet of Worms in 1122 brought a rather turbulent chapter in Europe’s history to a close. For nearly fifty years the question of where the authority of a bishop derives from, whether it comes from the pope or the emperor, had been the cause of civil war, excommunication and strongly worded letters between
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[the-subtitle] his essay will explore an explanation to resolve the theological contradiction in saying that the Church (the Body of Christ) has a preexistent nature (i.e. ‘there was never a time when the Church did not exist’) against the reality that the Church is a created thing and not a person with selfhood. The communication of
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o summarize the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a sacrament is fundamentally a visible sign of an invisible reality of Salvation. In his book, Introduction to the Mystery of the Church, De La Sojeole says: “The Church… is the sacrament of the Kingdom; she points to it and “contains” it in some way so as
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Civil War? n August of 2017, Jesse Walker wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times entitled: Are we Headed for a Second Civil War?[1] This article discusses warnings by conservatives and liberals alike that such an event could occur, some even giving a new civil war a thirty percent likelihood. Other columnists and pundits,
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he creeds pronounced at the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople are not the earliest instances of the declarative statements by the fathers about the nature, personhood, life, and works of the Triune Godhead, but they do provide a well-organized place to begin the discussion about what the Church believes about the nature of God and
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Introduction his exegesis paper will concentrate on John 11:1-44 (the Raising of Lazarus) and will offer a particular focus the historical aspect of the passage in regards to the historical reliability concerning the family of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. It is noteworthy that this is the only extensive narrative about a family in the entire
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This paper seeks to reflect upon the pericope of Micah 3:1-12 in light of the entire book of Micah and its historical and religious situation in Salvation History. To begin to develop a full understanding of this passage in its context, the paper will first recall the general message of the book and this passage’s
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