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\nBoth parts of my talk “The Worship of God” are now available via Ancient Faith Radio<\/a> here<\/b><\/a> and here<\/b><\/a> as part of the Roads From Emmaus podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My approach in this talk reflects one of my ongoing concerns—preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ, of the Holy Trinity, in a world that increasingly is either totally ignorant of its Creator or only takes a sort of intellectually deistic approach to Him. The question I asked myself in working on this talk is how I would begin with the assumption that listeners were not Christians at all or only had minimal Christian knowledge. I move from there to the height of Christian worship—the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

I believe it’s impossible to move with reason alone to the Holy Trinity, though I suppose one could get to a sort of deism. The line one must cross to get to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. That is, we do know not the Trinity because of reason, but because of revelation. Ultimately, that means conversion and communion will require an encounter with that revelation, which can come in a lot of forms. Its perfection is found in the Eucharist, in which the revealed, incarnate God makes Himself available to us as food. Mystical union is only possible if there is revelation. Otherwise, we and the rest of creation remain forever detached from the Creator.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m not sure if this talk is one of my better works, but it’s certainly one of my favorites so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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