Monday, May 26, 2025

RC Theologian Martin Jugie (1878-1954) on Baptism Being a Means of Avoiding Purgatory in Roman Catholic Theology

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   Baptism   Among the means of avoiding Purgatory, pride of place must be given to those which, directly or indirectly, draw their ef...

Roman Catholic Theologian Martin Jugie (1878-1954) on Indulgences

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   Indulgences   We have in indulgences, so liberally granted to us by the Church, a means at once easy and efficacious to wipe out th...

Paul J. Achtemeier on Love/Charity Covering Sins (1 Peter 4:8)

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   The most puzzling part of the verse consists in the final four words ( ἀγάπη καλύπτει πλῆθος ἁμαρτιῶν ). While the notion that love ...

Gary A. Anderson on Traditions Teaching Satan Sexually Seduced Eve

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    According to another apocryphal text, the Life of Adam and Eve , Adam was busy in a different part of the Garden from where Eve was, a...

Excerpts from Per Bilde, "Contra Apionem 1.28-56: An Essay on Josephus' View of His Own Work in the Context of the Jewish Canon" (1996)

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   . . . [Josephus] appears to have regarded himself as a prophet and, in this role, to have compared himself not only with Jeremiah but w...

Livestream with Errol Amey on Christology

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  Livestream with Errol Amey on Christology
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Gary A. Anderson, "Of Whom is Satan Jealous?"

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    Of Whom is Satan Jealous?     If Jewish sources were loath to shower praise on Adam in Eden for fear that he would overshadow Is...