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Category Archives: theology
The Blood of Abel
This painting comes from late medieval Strasbourg (c. 1410) It is currently in an art museum in Colmar, Alsace (France). Source of Image This image demonstrates the summation of medieval Christian piety with the bleeding, dying Jesus and the compassionate … Continue reading
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Winning Hearts and Minds
On March 6, 1522, Martin Luther returned permanently after an approximately ten-month stay in the Wartburg Castle. The electoral duke of Saxony, Frederick the Wise, had sent Luther to the Wartburg after the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, issued the … Continue reading
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Trust the Science
“Then came the explosion of this myth. It climaxed in the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and in the fierce fury of fifty-megaton bombers. Now we have come to see that science can give us only physical power, which if … Continue reading
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God Descends into Dust
“Majesty compressed himself to join to our dust the best thing he had, which is himself. God and dust, majesty and weakness, utter lowliness and utter sublimity were united in a single person. Nothing is more sublime than God, nothing … Continue reading
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More Than a Feeling
“For virtue is nothing else than an affection of the mind ordered according to reason, and such affections are said to be very numerous according to the various inclinations of the same mind, yet having one root and origin, the … Continue reading
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A Virgin Shall Conceive
“Perhaps at the time the angel came, she was holding [the text of] Isaiah in her hands; perhaps she was then studying the prophecy which declares: Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and his name will be … Continue reading
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Defy Everything: Martin Luther in 1520
“Let us…commit the affairs of men to God in faithful prayer, and be calm. What can they do? Will they kill [me]? Will they revive [me] again in order to kill [me] again? Will they brand me [me] a heretic? … Continue reading
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Medieval Passover
“This holy festival, Pascha, is called a Passover because just as the Hebrew people were freed through the blood of the slaughtered lamb, from the angel, passing through Egypt for striking, so the faithful people are defended through the blood … Continue reading
The Price of Satisfaction: Bernard of Clairvaux’s View of Redemption
“You lived, O man, in darkness and the shadow of death through ignorance of the truth; you were a prisoner and your sins were your shackles. He [Jesus] came down to you in your prison, not to torture you but … Continue reading
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