Tag: Divine Love
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Dear Melissa: A Response to Your Question on Hell
At the risk of posting a long response to your question about Rob Bell’s book on hell on my facebook wall, I’ll post it here. I have not read Rob Bell’s book Love Wins, so I cannot comment on the merits or demerits of the book. But I can speak on a couple of things…
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Who is Richard of St. Victor?
Who is Richard of St. Victor? I’ve never heard of him. Why is that? How does he compare with better known theologians like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas? Richard of St. Victor was a 12th century theologian living in Paris just before the creation of the very first university there. He, like many of…
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If God is a Trinity of Persons, and wants us to know this, why make it so impossible to understand?
If God is a Trinity of Persons, and wants us to know this, why make it so impossible to understand? Furthermore, if entrusting oneself to Jesus is all that’s necessary to inherit eternal life, isn’t belief in the Trinity and discussion about it a bit superfluous? Or, isn’t it sufficient to believe that God is a Trinity…