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Public domain; source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diego_Vel%C3%A1zquez_-_Coronation_of_the_Virgin_-_Prado.jpg Wisdom (Sophia) speaks: The Lord…
Dr. Steven Shaffer
We must understand the story and veneration of Mary as the spiritual expression of the inherent value of the feminine side of life.
Dr. Steven Shaffer
Nothing is more certain than your own experience
Dr. Steven Shaffer
313 AD may be the year the church stopped following Jesus' example
Dr. Steven Shaffer
God is whatever is left when you eliminate everything with a name.
Dr. Steven Shaffer
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I've recently figured out that many people don't know why Jesus is referred to as “the lamb of God” and why the image of a lamb is found on many…
Dr. Steven Shaffer
Paul was almost entirely disinterested in what Jesus actually said and did
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(God) is not soul or mind, nor does it possess imagination, conviction, speech, or understanding. Nor is it speech per se, understanding per se. It…
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If you experience God (the most subjective experience of all), then that is more certain even than that the sun will rise tomorrow.
Dr. Steven Shaffer
The self's transcendence of language implies a transcendence of the world, and the possibility of new understanding not bounded by language.
Dr. Steven Shaffer
To take but one example, a Christian theologian may on occasion put forward and defend the trinitarian formula that 'God is three persons in one being…
Dr. Steven Shaffer
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus [1] Continuing on the…
Dr. Steven Shaffer
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