Theology

“What sort of God would throw candy wrappers on a pristine beach? I mean, burning someone at the stake, well maybe, but littering, no way!”

“Once we get past skyscrapers and suspension bridges, we really have no idea what’s going on, do we?”

“All gods are two faced…and that’s not blasphemy!”

“Nobody believes in Hell anymore…and that’s a good thing.”

“Some of us were waving copies of Mao’s Little Red Book; we all should have been clutching copies of the Old Testament.”

"Over the course of history, however, humans have just as often sought to trade their existential liberty for the promise, always ultimately empty, of security and/or prosperity."

“Sir, you are quite simply insane. We know exactly what holds our universe together; it is electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong force…not Christ.”

“God is good because he’s good, not just because he’s God.”

This excerpt from the writings of St. Paul is among the best-known passages in Judeo-Christian scripture. But what does it really mean?

The Bible doesn’t tell us what John saw, but it does tell us that the breaking of the seventh seal was followed by half an hour of total silence. Why?

Thirty years after the death of Jesus…St. Paul quoted an already ancient Christology…a TOE.

What would happen if we read the Old Testament in reverse order? From back to front. What if we began with Malachi and ended with Genesis?

How is it that God can perform the miracle of Incarnation? Or to put it more accurately, how is it that God is the miracle of Incarnation.

Ultimately, the Kingdom of Heaven is the transfiguration of the historical realm into the eternal realm, according to God’s values.

Suppose we were to express our generation's secular worldview as a 'creed,' how would it read?

“The second is like it…” Really? The second is like it? Like it? At first glance, this seems ridiculous. The two verses don’t look alike at all. One concerns our relationship with God, the Almighty, the creator of heaven and earth; the other concerns our relationship with the jerk down the street who doesn’t mow his lawn and plays his music loud on Saturday nights.

If I do my job in this essay, you may become a modern-day version of Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, who “stoppeth one of three." You’ll be spreading the truth about Job to anyone who’ll listen.

Why is this Christological formulation so important for the development of Christian theology?