The psalmist believed that the dead inhabit the land of oblivion (88:13); they are in a state of spiritual amnesia. God no longer works wonders for the dead (88:11). They cannot remember God because their relationship with him has been severed. Sadness reigns in the world of the dead (Dt 34:8).  The joyless state of [...]

Jesus could not work miracles for people without faith, because such persons are without the Holy Spirit which empowers people to “see” the Father in Jesus. People do not come to Christ unless the Father draws them through the gift of his Spirit of love for the Son he proclaims as his “beloved” at his [...]

How can God be closer to you than yourself?  The answer lies in appreciatingthe nature of what it means to be psychologically present to someone, including onself. An appreciation of personal identity and psychological presence can illumine the sense in which God is supremely present in our lives, indeed closer to us than we are. [...]

A theophany occurs at the baptism of Jesus by John. What is revealed in the audible and visible coincidence of the voice of God declaring the Father’s pleasure in his Son, the dove descending, and the incarnate Word is nothing less than the Trinity itself, in the fullness of its shared love, its imminent dynamism [...]

The story of Jesus is what the eternal trinitarian life of God looks like when it is projected upon the screen of history, and this means not only on the screen of human history but of sinful human history. The obedience of Jesus to the Father, his obedience to his mission, is just what the [...]

Each of the four gospels proclaims in its particular way that the Holy Spirit of Love is the reciprocity of the Father and the Son in communion.
Mark – Gospel of the loving Father and of the beloved Son proclaims both
The Spirit of the Fathe’s love for the Son, and
The Spirit of the Son’s love for [...]

In Christian speech a witness is not a reporter. Witnesses speak about what they know. The witnesses of Christ’s Resurrection not only told people what they had seen, but also spoke of what had happened to them because of what they had seen. They spoke about Christ in them, not only about the person they [...]

When speaking of how God is known, Christian thinkers favored the metaphor of seeing, not hearing. Beauty is the corollary of seeing. In the Scriptures many of the key terms used of God’s self-disclosure, words such as glory, splendor, light, image, and face, have to do with the delight of the eye. When we speak [...]

Through the gift of the Triune God’s Son and Spirit we learn to think, love and rejoice as God. The Spirit of God is the cognitive and affective life of God that is the origin, ground and destiny of all creation.
The life story of Jesus expresses what God thinks, loves and enjoys. He has given [...]

There are three key moments of divine and human hospitality in  our salvation history The Abraham pattern of divine and human hospitality recurs through salvation history. From the time of the promise made to Abraham, to its fulfilment in Christ, and at the Last Judgment, the Host of the world is welcomed and shown hospitality in [...]