Mark’s gospel, long overlooked in early Christian tradition, experienced something of a resurgence in the late nineteenth century when biblical scholars came to the conclusion that Mark, long believed to be the second gospel written, […]
Category: Jesus Christ
A rose by any other name? What is theology?
“I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this I believe–that unless I believe, I should not understand.” – St. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogium, […]
Oh the Movements of the Holy Spirit!
Karl Rahner once wrote, “Christians, for all their orthodox profession of faith in the Trinity, are almost just ‘monotheist’ in their actual religious experience. One might almost dare to affirm that if the doctrine of […]
The Holy Spirit and the Beatitudes: “Blessed” Are We?
When the other Daily Theology writers asked me to take part in my second Theological Shark Week, I jumped at the opportunity to kick off this week’s Holy Spirit-themed series with…the Beatitudes. [Long sigh] The […]
The Ascension – Jesus’ Feet, Our Feet
“This Jesus whom you saw ascending into heaven will return as you saw him go, alleluia” Depending on which diocese you live in, either today (Thursday) or this coming Sunday is the Feast of the […]
Deep Resurrection: The Martyrdom and Resurrection of Creation in Our Day
By Christine McCarthy The Long View of History: From Eternity to the History of Time Fox’s reboot of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is an experience not to be missed. […]
Serving Imagination on Holy Thursday
In The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene tells the story of the “whisky priest,” a minister whose brokenness is evident to many of the other characters, and perhaps most especially to himself. A revolution […]
The Wonderful Incomprehensibility of God’s Salvation
By Patrick Manning When I was twelve years old, I came face-to-face with death in dramatic fashion. Our entire community had been shocked to learn of the death of the father of one of my […]
Writing about our bodies… and the Body of Christ
The last few weeks my introduction to Catholicism class has been exploring our being embodied. We’ve been talking about worship and formation, about eating and drinking, about Stations of the Cross and sacramental signs. But before […]
The Fix-it Impulse: The Challenge of Abiding in the Desert
“I can fix it.” As a minister, spouse, father, social worker, son, white male, in virtually every context of my life has that phrase been a refrain. It’s both gift and curse. “I can fix […]
