I think that Aquinas is being a little too neat here. It is better to believe the creeds, and accept that there is a marked…
Posted: 7 May 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
Category: Christianity
Posted: 30 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
Aquinas starts from first principles, discussing how things differ from inanimate objects and forces, to plants, to animals. His point will offend the hard vegans:…
Posted: 23 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
Friday seems to be the new day for theology posts. It is fitting, as it is the end of the working week. Briggs is moving…
Posted: 18 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Poetry
This is just simple and lovely. Praise. (I) TO write a verse or two is all the praise, That I can raise: Mend my estate…
Posted: 16 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
Yesterday was busy and today is heading the same way. Briggs is continuing with Aquinas, dealing with the followers of Arius, and their errors, but…
Posted: 9 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
I am late again: from returning to work after the Easter Break it has been crazy. One of my colleagues gave me this advice: I…
Posted: 3 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Lectionary
Adam had a bunch of things that were to go up on Friday, but he was being hacked again. We are in Central Otago, where…
Posted: 1 April 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
I am looking today at the commentaries on John 20. Let’s start with Calvin, who deals rapidly with a series of variations within the gospels,…
Posted: 26 March 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
Thursday Theology is a day late: I spent yesterday with a Lurgi (not COVID: there is officially no COVID in NZ) and was under wifely…
Posted: 11 March 2021
Categories: Christianity, Theology
I’m enjoying Aquinas, which I did not think I would ever do, but he carefully deals with a series of errors, one after the other….