This paper provides a philosophical critique of natural theology as it is commonly understood in the West. Since natural theology is said to be what the human mind by the “light of natural reason alone” can know about God apart from revelation, this critique will focus on epistemological issues in an attempt to establish a
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This paper provides a philosophical analysis into the necessary conditions for the possibility of knowledge and explores what could satisfy these conditions so as to provide a sufficient justification criterion for the existence of knowledge. More specifically, I look at two possibilities for grounding and justifying knowledge: theonomous epistemology (revelatory theism) and autonomous epistemology (what
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My dear readers, during this most beautiful week of the Cross, in the middle of the Great Fast, I wanted to share with you the words of the holy Archbishop Averky. They are from his work, “The Kingdom of God on earth – progress or the Cross?” Which is a chapter is a greater work
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Below the reader will find a beautiful account of a disciple who through his seeming lack of strict obedience brought forth great fruit. He rightly coupled discernment with obedience. For without discernment, it is possible for obedience to become abusive. Of course, such discernment was (and must be) exercised with great Christian love and devotion.
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The Church’s episcopal reaction to the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) epidemic assumed two basic and related concepts of Church life: the nature of obedience to bishops’ mandates, and the acceptance of penances for spiritual health. The mandates to restrict Church life predicated on subordination to public-civil health authority (Titus 3:1; e.g., lockdowns, social distancing, contact
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How is love born in the human soul? Love is the fruit of virtue. But love, in turn, begets virtue. And this is how it is done: The virtuous man does not prefer money to love for his fellow man. He is not a grudge. He is not unfair. He is not a bad doctor.
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