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Holy Wisdom vs the Holy Spirit
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
Jul 26, 2022
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There's something about Mary...
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
Oct 7, 2022
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The essence of Christianity is your own inner movement toward God
Nothing is more certain than your own experience
Dr. Steven Shaffer
Dec 8, 2022
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Why early church history matters
313 AD may be the year the church stopped following Jesus' example
Dr. Steven Shaffer
Sep 13, 2022
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“Negative” theology
God is whatever is left when you eliminate everything with a name.
Dr. Steven Shaffer
May 30, 2022
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Mary had a little lamb
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
Jul 11, 2022
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Saint Paul was not a Christian
Paul was almost entirely disinterested in what Jesus actually said and did
Dr. Steven Shaffer
Sep 25, 2022
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God is not Love
(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…
Dr. Steven Shaffer
Jun 27, 2022
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Kierkegaard on faith, truth and certainty
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
Sep 6, 2022
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Why facts have no bearing whatsoever on religious belief
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
Aug 26, 2022
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Why the concept of the Trinity is meaningless
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
Jul 30, 2022
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Science answers how not why
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
Aug 4, 2022
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