Archive for April, 2006



The Holy Spirit of Reciprocity

Published on April 17, 2006

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 [...]


Christian Witness

Published on April 4, 2006

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 [...]


How God is Known

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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 [...]


Be still and know that I am God. Ps 46:10

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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 [...]