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What accounts for such extreme behavior? Traditional rivalries, for one thing, have long mirrored societal rifts. Glasgow Celtic fans are Catholic, and Rangers fans are Protestant. In Rome it was communist vs. fascist; in Madrid nationalist vs. Catalan or Basque. Yet as those old markers fade, the violence seems to...
Exegetes like Eden Theological Seminary's Patterson think the angel's birth announcement embodies the hope that Jesus' coming kingdom will turn political as well as religious worlds upside down. "Luke can't be saying anything other than 'You think you have a son of God in Augustus?'" he says...
For centuries, Christians expended vast interpretive energies on that last phrase. Long-standing arguments between Catholics and Protestants revolved around whether Mary inherently possessed the grace enabling her to accept the divine will (making her more worthy of Catholic-style reverence) or was granted it on an as-needed basis...
In any case, Matthew's wise men were a classic case of fish out of water. ("Like a meeting of Iranian ayatullahs in Nebraska," quips Theodore Jennings Jr. of the Chicago Theological Seminary.) This impression may have been no accident, since it expressed Matthew's growing frustration at the majority...
The number of men entering the Catholic priesthood has declined dramatically in recent years, straining the resources of small seminaries. BC has come under criticism from some who say the college is at risk of losing core elements of its Catholic identity.