For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures… (1 Cor. 15:3-4) No statement is more central to the Christian faith than St. Paul’s rehearsal of the Apostolic Tradition – for his words “delivered…received…” are specifically the words that describe theā¦
The human desire for justice is insatiable. And that is a problem.Ā It is a problem because an insatiable desire can never be satisfied: there is no end to our desire for justice.Ā It is a problem because many Christians use justice as a lens for understanding the work of our salvation.Ā The fathers have a term for insatiable desires: passions. What human beings experience as a desire for justice is not a virtue –ā¦
The Christian faith is not about ideas – it is about things that are. As such, we do not need to cultivate theological systems – we need to know how to live. This also tells us something about darkness. The dangers we face are not found in mistaken ideas – they are found in the negation of what is. Scripture says that our adversary was a āmurderer from the beginning.ā It isā¦
