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Vahanian will for ever be remembered in the history of theology as the author of a work of worldwide influence, The Death of God (1961). This work, with its provocative title, was a powerful critique of religion as it was ...

 There was no question then (as there was in the following century) of furthering the cause of atheism, but of conceiving of religion as wholly understandable through reason, without recourse to a special revelation such as the Bible. Enlightenment religion ...

Cuvier, born in Montbéliard on 23 August 1769, was closely acquainted with all the glory and rewards which a man of science could receive: student at the Académie de Sciences, professor at the Ecole Centrale, chair of Comparative Anatomy at ...

Neither Matthew nor Mark advises us to repeat the blessing of Jesus “in remembrance of me”. Some but not all ancient manuscripts of Luke specify this repeated act of remembrance, along with Paul in 1 Corinthians – but he was ...

Rev. Julian Mellado What type of church do we want? 1. We want a church where God will never cease to be a mystery, the Indescribable One; where nobody can limit or restrict Him to any human dogma or concept; ...

 We believe that God is present in our lives. We believe that he gathers us and that he shows himself to us exactly where we do not expect and in what we did not foresee or predict. We believe that ...

He initially thought of training as a rabbi, but was soon taken with a deep interest in the natural sciences and in Descartes’ philosophy. It was the reading of Descartes which inculcated in Spinoza a rational frame of mind, and ...

All good Protestants believe in the real presence. Christ is certainly and really present in the Eucharist. He is really there: there is no illusion and no masquerade. When Christ said, “Where two or three are gathered together in my ...

Petitionary prayers exist of course. In the prayer-request books sometimes placed at the entrance to churches, we often read precise requests, frequently addressed to the Virgin Mary or St Rita, patron saint of lost causes: – “Make Marcel love me ...

 We recall that Texas is the State responsible for more executions than any other – of the 46 executions in the USA in 2010, 17 were carried out in Texas. Rick Perry confirmed his support for the death penalty. But ...