Reflections on Morality, Philosophy, and History

Reflections on Morality, Philosophy, and History

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St Augustine on the Beatitudes from His Treatise, Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount

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Why did Christ climb the mountain to preach to the people? St Augustine teaches us so Christ can teach us “greater precepts of righteousness,” righteousness not solely through fear, but righteousness that will “set us free by love.” […]

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On Learning Attic and Koine Greek, Classical Latin, and Biblical Hebrew

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You would only want to learn these ancient languages if you are truly a serious student, and want to read the Scriptures and classics in their original language, and so you will not miss the word plays and puns that you can only catch in the original language. When reading epic poems of Homer and the Greek playwrights, or the Psalms in Old Testament, or the elegant works of Cicero, you can experience the rhymes and rhythms of the original language, as poetry can be incredibly difficult to translate. When we cut the video for a play by Aeschylus on the Battle of Salamis in the Persian Wars, the various translations we encountered were RADICALLY different. Personally, I am tempted not to read any more Greek plays until I learn how to read Attic Greek. […]

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Book Reviews: Civil Rights and American History

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These quick book reviews include links to our YouTube videos and blogs on Civil Rights and American History topics, plus related topics. […]

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Book Reviews, Reform Councils of Trent and Vatican II, and Vatican I

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IMHO, you cannot truly understand the modern Catholic Church without reading William O’Malley’s histories of Trent and Vatican II. O’Malley argues that Vatican II restated the theology of Trent, countering the notion that Trent was a reactionary rather than a reforming council. This polemic view of Trent was influenced by the fact that the Vatican had closed the archives of the Trent Council until early in the twentieth century. […]

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Biblical Interpretation

Book Review: Early Church Fathers Library – 38 Volumes in 3 Series

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This 38-volume library of the works of the Early Church Fathers in the first few centuries of the Church is an invaluable resource for the serious student of Theology, and the Scriptures also, since many of the writings of the early Church Fathers are Biblical commentaries.  Although this collection was compiled in the late 1800’s by Protestant scholars, it is still a primary English source for many of these works for scholars of all denominations. […]

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Book Reviews, Commentaries of Torah and Talmud, Medieval Rabbis and Modern Rabbis and Scholars

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We encourage Christians to study the moral lessons of the Torah, we do not hold to the dual-covenant belief that the laws in the Torah have been superseded. St Irenaeus in his influential work, On Heresies, teaches us that the moral laws of the Torah are still binding on Christians, and that the dietary and festival laws that have been superseded can be read as teaching moral lessons allegorically. […]

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Book Reviews: Greco-Roman Stoic and Cynic Philosophers, and Epicurus

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These quick book reviews include links to our YouTube videos and blogs on the Stoic and Greco-Roman philosophers. […]

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AntiSemitism

Book Reviews for Blogs On How Christians Coped Under Fascist Regimes

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Many of the books I have consulted for my blogs on how Christians cope under Fascist regimes have interesting histories of their own, some even have these histories on their own Wikipedia pages. […]

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Book Reviews on Apostolic and Early Church Fathers

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These quick book reviews include links to our YouTube videos and blogs on the Apostolic and Early Church Fathers, plus related topics. We will also discuss how to read ancient works, and the problems scholars face when translating ancient works, and the 38-volume set of the writings of the Ante-Nicene, ante meaning before, Nicene, and Post-Nicene Church Fathers, translated into English. […]

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