AUTHOR’S NOTE: The classic 1942 Screwtape Letters book by C.S. Lewis was the product of a different age and Lewis’ unique religious perspective. The Screwtape “Text Messages” uses the same literary approach of an arch demon instructing his apprentice. But they also consider the mind-bending consequences of how artificial intelligence
I will first make a few introductory comments pertaining to the development of doctrine. Second, I will treat the patristic and conciliar dogmatic development concerning the conception and articulation of the Incarnation. I will then, briefly, provide St. Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of the incarnational union as a mixed relation. Lastly,
Do you remember the first time your church responded to COVID? For most of us, it was early in 2020. Hundreds of thousands of churches closed their doors and stopped having in-person worship services. Many of us thought it was a short-term problem, that in three or four months, we