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The resulting visions of redemption would be tainted by the search for blame in the death of the Redeemer. According to Matthew, a Jewish mob cried, "His blood be on us and on our children" while demanding the death of Jesus. And centuries of Christians would oblige them with massacres...
Indeed, encyclicals are never page turners, and the Pontiff, a philosopher and onetime professor, tosses around such celestial concepts as "fundamental option," "invincible ignorance," "teleology" and "consequentialism." John Paul also peppers his paper with 184 footnotes, citing for instance the Second Vatican Council, the new Catechism of the Catholic Church...
One of the delights of Armstrong's book is her exploration of some relatively unfamiliar pathways to God. She is much taken with a Muslim movement devoted to Falsafah (roughly, philosophy) that emerged in the 9th and 10th centuries. Its advocates, known as Faylasufs, believed that the God of Greek...
But then there are St. Paul's dictums: "I permit no woman to teach or have authority over men" (I Timothy 2: 12), and "the women should keep silence in the churches" (I Corinthians 14: 34). Though some conservative Protestants feel bound by those words, a sizable body of their...
When the smoke cleared after mobs burned through South Central Los Angeles in April, hundreds of businesses, many of them black owned, had been destroyed. Yet not a single McDonald's restaurant had been torched. Within hours after the curfew was lifted, all South Central's Golden Arches were back...