All tagged Augustine

485 Theology Uncorked|JC’s power, Human or Divine?

Here's some uber common thinking: Jesus when he felt pain or frustration did that in his humanity, but when he drove out demons or raised Lazarus from the dead he did so in his divinity. It is a common question: Did Jesus do different things, and exercise his power, alternately in his humanity and/or his divinity? I work through what the Gospels in particular, and the New Testament more broadly, show us. In the show's cultural reflection I opine on the Lindsay Clancey case in Massachusetts. What did the law (not prosecutors, not defense team, not the judge) in Plymouth, MA, get wrong? How did that case impact me as a grandpa?

153 Damaging the Frequency of Freedom

Life is a matter of frequency, of attunement, of stimmung (in German). How we attune ourselves, how we tune our frequency, greatly determines the quality of our lives. What kinds of things have entered the American frequency that have cloyed both a biblical and an American understanding of freedom? What Beatles song do I sing to make my point? Come think and laugh with me.

010 Faith vs. Reason (9) Reason Submits to Faith

Amazingly, reason cannot stand on its own. An unbounded reason often turns into a bone-crushing monster. For example, in some cultures it is reasonable to euthanize the mentally handicapped, or treat women as less than fully human. So, reason needs faith. The problem is that our Post-Cartesian society has made us swallow the blue pill of blindness, of blind faith. Jesus Christ offers us the red pill of reality, reality filled with truth, meaning, and grace. Let me show you some ways that faith informs Christian reasoning.