tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51524722012-02-09T20:32:13.610-05:00Pilate's QuestionWhat is truth? The modern deluge of information makes the ancient question more pertinent than ever. Here may be found those musings, lengthy and otherwise, which represent my pursuit of the answer.Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-1115677264809616562005-05-09T18:16:00.000-04:002005-05-09T18:21:04.823-04:00Pre-Nicene ChristianityFr. John BehrFinal PaperJ. Anthony CookJanuary 14, 2005Theological Calculus In all the history of the Christian Church, it is difficult to find a more controversial figure than Origen of Alexandria. He has justly been known as both a standard of Orthodoxy and a precursor of Arius, as both an ecclesiastical rebel and a pillar of the Church. That he clearly and even Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-1061170603952669142003-08-17T21:36:00.000-04:002003-08-17T21:36:44.523-04:00Still more on Anglicanism vs. Orthodoxy: first from the longwinded Peter Geromel, with a brief reply from me. This will have to suffice until I get to Boston and again have time to devote myself to such things as theology. For the next week and a half, my life is medical files and sleep, then packing. *sigh* Such is life. Work first, then play. ---------------------------------------------------Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-1060665715514180432003-08-12T01:21:00.000-04:002003-08-12T01:21:55.473-04:00This morning I received a lengthy email from another Anglican friend from Hillsdale, Peter Geromel, further outlining the Anglican claims to be a legitimate Church. His email--and my response--are posted below. For ease of reading, his comes first. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter wrote... Here is Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-1060504970223330602003-08-10T04:42:00.000-04:002003-08-10T04:42:50.213-04:00It is currently 3:30 on a Sunday morning. I just finished a lengthy discussion with Daniel Silliman examining the issues dividing the Anglican Church and Orthodoxy. I post it below in its entirety. There are valuable points on both sides. I am very grateful for the opportunity to finally hash out the issue with Daniel, and even more grateful simply for the opportunity to talk with him for such a Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-939365962003-05-07T12:59:00.000-04:002003-05-07T12:59:23.823-04:00The two papers now posted below are my most recent work here at Hillsdale. The first one, Salvation and the Human Intellect, is my Honours Thesis Presentation. I will be expanding that paper for its final submission Friday. But I'm fairly happy with it as it is right now--it worked well as a presentation. Please read and comment, if you have time and interest. The other is my Ancient Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-939364882003-05-07T12:57:00.000-04:002003-05-07T12:57:14.490-04:00Christianity in Antiquity Prof. Christopher Kelley Research Paper Jared Anthony Cook April 19, 2003 Barbarians in a Hellenistic World In the millennia God first spoke to Abraham, those whose faith rests in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob have encountered one constant struggle both personally and corporately in their encounters with the world. The conflict between a simple faith in Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-939362892003-05-07T12:52:00.000-04:002003-05-07T12:52:54.970-04:00Salvation and the Human Intellect ��And Jesus answered and said to her, �Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her� (Luke 10:41-42). �from T.S. Eliot�s The Four Quartets, Little Gidding, in which he describes a small chapel: You are not here to verify, Instruct yourself, or Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-939360152003-05-07T12:47:00.000-04:002003-05-07T12:47:12.700-04:00I have changed the stated intent of this blog. Translated into Gugg-ese, this change means that I will now post papers and anything else that strikes my fancy here. :) 'Twill be fun.Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-928248752003-04-18T02:38:00.000-04:002003-04-18T02:38:04.200-04:00Ok...so the idea of only posting what was completely true didn't turn out so well. Come to think of it, it was a fairly dumb idea. Never mind...I'll figure out something better to do with this blog. Perhaps turn it into a place to distill the best from my other blog, that which in my opinion best approaches an answer to the question of this blog's title (or even simply a good phrasing of Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-909394272003-03-18T14:14:00.000-05:002003-03-19T18:04:24.000-05:00MORALITY AND NECESSITY (OPINION, NOT FACT) Much has been written of war and peace in this small circle of the internet by many with a far better knowledge than I of history, philosophy and the fine line where theology must weigh in on political matters. I hesitate to disagree with the prevailing opinion that Bush is committing a heinous crime against the people of Iraq, that his war is a sin Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-906078892003-03-12T16:09:00.000-05:002003-03-12T16:09:32.610-05:00This site is probably the best I have ever read on the issue of Iraq, terrorism and this strange new post-9-11 world. I cannot recommend it more highly. A few comments, though, as I read, I realize how flat my prose falls: Mr. Lee Harris is right in his assessment of the effect of September 11's terrorism on the world. Whatever happens, our former assumptions, policies and even terms are Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-905650932003-03-11T22:57:00.000-05:002003-03-12T16:09:54.000-05:00To begin with the obvious: The Iraq issue is extremely complex. Absent hard facts, both sides in the war debate insist that what little is known for certain lends credence to their position. The argument attracts all sorts of special interests: American imperialists, pacifists, anti-Semites, the oil lobby, the anti-oil lobby, human rights activists and both haters and lovers of America. Amidst Fr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152472.post-905246942003-03-11T10:16:00.000-05:002003-03-11T12:06:56.000-05:00THE TRUTH SO HELP ME GOD The Internet has deluged modern society with information. Cutting through the tremendous amount of drivel is all but impossible. The primary news sources are trustworthy to a point, but all too often, taking refuge in the safety of the press release and the quote, they provide their readerships with information that is at best misleading, at worst utterly false. In theirFr. Ahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11732185067893985903noreply@blogger.com0