Tag Archive: God

Oct
30
2011

Heaven and Earth

Experience of life: its routines; the workaday world; home leisure, reassuring in their way, buttress  our sense of life’s rational elements, its continuity  upholding our need for a beginning, a middle, and an end,  and awareness of place along the line, holding off conflicts  that bear no resolution: the creep of illness and indifference;  the …

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May
18
2011

Purpose of Creation

What then is it all about? In a brilliant sentence, Benedict carefully explained the broad sweep of our being to us: “God made the world so that there could be a space where he might communicate his love, and from which the response of love might come back to him.” This passage emphasizes the central …

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Sep
05
2010

Transcendence

Why should we consider this power to be transcendent (that is—transcending the universe as a whole)? Because if the universe was nothing prior to its beginning, then the reality which causes it to exist must be completely beyond it (independent of it). This transcendent reality which causes the universe as a whole to exist is …

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Sep
04
2010

Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

The question “why is there something rather than nothing?” is not searching after a thing within the universe, but rather the being of the universe. It is wondering why (to use the technical term) contingent things exist, that is to say, things that do not contain within themselves the reason for their own being. You …

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Apr
14
2010

Godhead Here in Hiding

A hymn also known as Adoro Te Devote: Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore, Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at Thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art. Seeing, touching, tasting are in thee deceived: How says trusty …

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