If you don’t have an ear for the music of Christianity, it may be hard to make sense of why the Lenten days tracking the Gospels’ accounts of Jesus’ journey from freedom to arrest, crucifixion, and resurrection are so important to Christians. The answer partly lies in the doctrine that Christ liberates, or saves, human [...]
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#14 Rescued from the iron cage of guilt
Posted in Ethics, God, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Theological Ethics, Theology, tagged Christ, conscience, guilt, Lent, salvation, sin on March 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
#13 Giving up Me-Centrism for Lent
Posted in Ethics, God, Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Religious Philosophy, Spiritual Exercises, Theological Ethics, Theology, tagged Lent, Levinas, Me-Centrism on March 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Think you’re number one? Who doesn’t? Are you a narcissist? Hey, who isn’t? After all, our interior world is most vivid to ourselves. Who could possibly know and care for our well-being and happiness better than ourselves? A tidy amount of Me-Centrism is desirable (we Americans prefer to call it self-esteem), but in sloppy-sized doses, it turns [...]
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