Scimus autem quoniam diligentibus Deum omnia cooperantur in bonum, iis qui secundum propositum vocati sunt sancti. And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints. There is an ancient theological lesson at illustration again, sadly, in this…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Christian seminary president doesn’t believe in Resurrection, Virgin Birth, Heaven, or Miracles Back in the day, what a Union President had to say would be front page NYT, not level 3 blog. Still,…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT In 1969, I graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity at The Union Theological Seminary In The City Of New York. 2019 is the 50th anniversary of that occasion. Last week I…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Until lately, Socialism has been beating Christianity over the question of who controls Christian Civilization through nations created by the Greek and Latin Churches. Until lately, Socialists have won every war they engaged…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I signed this: The Statement On Social Justice & The Gospel Its framers claim the statement is not a creedal statement, and that is true in the sense that the whole church has…
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 PDF version of this post is available here. National sovereignty is a sweet fruit tree who grows in the rich, blood-soaked soil of freedom by imbibing the power of rivers…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT So far, some Jihadis are answered but not Jihad itself. … told many times one is coming, still we have no announcement of strategic war to annihilate ISIL and the Salafi Jihad altogether. Jihadis…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Contents of this post comprise the axis of my career as a theologian, which is to say, an educator and mystical philosopher. A precursor of this post I sent Dr. Holland Hendrix, then-President, UTS,…
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 Theological Geography is taking God as the corporeality of a zone of geography. But man is not a marketplace. He is a creature with a homing-instinct. Mark David Hall: How Reformed Theologians’…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I admire Angelo M. Codevilla. In this discussion of America and peace Dr. Codevilla stands squarely at the intersection of theology and geography, mystery and power, and describes American manifest destiny. Implicit in…
RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Yesterday Dr. Sanity discussed the problem of evil in an unusual way — not for her but for professional and lay persons generally. She acknowledges that evil is a concomitant of existence. I offered a series of comments, first referring to a writer…
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 prophetic/theological condemnation of Koranolatry and, in the faux-Christian orbit, its analog, Bibliolatry, is required. The issue is an ancient one: idolatry, the result of the constant impulse in man to…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Union is not important generally, as I am sure everyone on site understands. It has been parochial for a narrow range of opinion, justly characterized as tendentious, even bumptious, for decades and has…
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 Deposition I: Curriculum For A Theological Education Deposition II: Delusion And The Doctrine Of Original Sin Deposition III: A Festival Composition For The Feast Of The Holy Trinity D e p…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT I learned five things at the Union Theological Seminary, one from each of five professors. They are: From James Sanders I learned the essential message of the Prophets … that the Giver, not…
Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Dr. Hendrix, Please accept my warmest thanks for this publication, The State of Union. The form alone is lovely, and your article is gratifying to this old observer. I was on the Curriculum…
