Very clear and accessible article that helps understanding on the human ‘self’ and in doing do explains the veracity of Augustine’s confession that our heart is restless until it finds - and attaches to - God. Who are you?

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exist." — Hannah Arendt

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 9, The Lost World:

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 8, The Loss of Final Causes:

This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong

1/12 🧵 Friends, you’ve probably seen the quote: “God became man so that man might become God.” It sounds shocking at first. But this line from St. Athanasius is one of the most beautiful and profound statements in Christian history, if we truly understand what he meant.

Rest in peace, Patricia Routledge 🙏🏻 In memory of her, I encourage everyone to read these words of hers from February last year. Whether young or old, you're bound to get something out of it. ***** "I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 7, The Ontological Bifurcation of Modernity:

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 6, A Juridical Faith:

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 5, Losing the Analogy:

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 4, The Neoplatonism of Thomas Aquinas:

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 3, "Converted to Our Use":

Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 2, The Good Soil of the Platonic Worldview:

1 of 7 so far. Worth persevering with: explains current impotence of so much of western Christianity. Experimental Theology: The Metaphysics of Faith: Part 1, The Background Glitch:

When truth and beautiful theology speak: “[T]he activity of God ad extra is one and indivisible … [T]he Father and the Spirit are involved in history, but only the Son becomes history.” John Zizioulas Being as Communion pp128-129

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table W.H. Auden, 21st February 1907 – 29th September 1973

“You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” ― Anne Lamott

Historian Will Durant was not a religious man, but he believed faith was "indispensable" to a culture. He delivered a dire warning to societies who traded faith for comfort…🧵 (thread)

Kenneth Clark lamented that civilization was a fragile thing. He observed three “enemies” that could topple even the mightiest cultures. What are they, and how can we prevent them?🧵

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