Realism, Budget, Staffing And The Truth About Apostolic Succession

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, A Planting Apostolic Succession is not a palpation.  It is a way of living.  St.  Jerome said, “A vestment does not make a bishop.” A laying on of hands does not make an ordination. Recently, our parish church witnessed this truth in…

Implications of Incarnation Theology / A Conversation

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT A Christian Scientist and I were discussing the sentence, “Reason is the record of our connectivity with God.”  A conflation of my side of the conversation follows. Reason is a word…

Redaction

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Regarding any phenomenon, there are five questions: Who?, Why?, What?, Where? and When?. As scientists, we ask, What?, Where? and When?. As philosophers we ask, Why? and What?. As theologians or sages, we…

Apostolic Authority

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT It is all right to talk about Matthew writing this and Mark that so long as you have their autographs as the literature bearing their names. But you don’t know that…

Exegetical Method

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The Exegetical Method I would like to suggest is this: 1- Identify, as well as is possible, the texts which originate from the same source. There are numerous grounds on which to make such identifications. This work was finished, except for minor adjustments,…

A Little Of This, A Little Of That

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. The sacrament is merely a reminder for believers. It has no soteriological efficacy on its own, as part of its own nature. If it did, this world would have been perfect ‘er now. Claims respecting a soteriological efficacy…

Over The Khyber: Research Findings At Adwaitha Hermitage

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The Jewish Homeland is Kashmir.  In the Bible, when heaven is mentioned, Kashmir is meant.  This is invariable. The issue is suzerainty: to whom does one belong?  One belongs either to…

Theology of the Mass – A Coup d’œil

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Second set of comments on a new Anglican Mass, plus, response to demand for verification of Pythagorean background of Christian theological formation. I am deeply saddened, as you must be also,…

Evangelism

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Refit to situation where Christianity is taken by Christians as one among several equally valid and viable religions, where faith in Allah, for example, is recognized for being as potentially salvation-producing…

Epigrams V

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT No Nominalist system recognizes much less copes with the phenomenon of delusion. Every Realist system recognizes and more or less appropriately copes with the phenomenon of delusion.   To expand cosmology…