As you read through this chapter, think about the contradictory criticisms of the Church today, and think about the seemingly contradictory positions to which the Church holds fast (such as God’s justice and mercy).
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Please remember that tonight we will be gathering to discuss Chapter 5 of Orthodoxy, “The Flag of the World” and what it means to love the world – neither optimistically nor pessimistically but truly.
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He writes that we must change our perspective from one of laws and necessity to an attitude based upon wonder and gratitude.
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For Chesterton, Christianity is a “romance” – not like Nicholas Sparks but King Arthur – a tale of marvelous adventures, heroic knights, and grand battles.
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“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.”
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This book is a defense of basic Christianity both against modern rationalism which holds that only logic and reason are the means of discovering truth and against a post-modern denial of truth itself.
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Accordingly, to begin with, Isaac, when led by his father as a victim, and himself bearing his own wood, was even at that early period pointing to Christ’s death; conceded, as He was, as a victim by the Father; carrying, as He did, the wood of His own passion. – Tertullian “An Answer to the Jews”
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There are few passages in the Old Testament that speak more directly or predictively about the Passion than does Genesis 22.
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The account of Abraham our father binding his son includes two great ideas or principles of our faith. First, it shows us the extent and limit of the fear of God. Moses Maimonides “Guide for the Perplexed”
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Why would God make this demand upon Abraham himself, and why doesn’t Abraham protest this request? Below is a series of questions to contemplate as you read through Genesis 22, followed by a series of commentaries on the narrative and its ethical implications.
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