What all this means in relation to the first sentence of Article XVII, is that God has known and decreed from all eternity, that there will be a world, that it will Fall into sin, and that a certain ...
That love is directed first to Christ and then to all who are in Christ, our Elder Brother, and that salvific love is not something God has for everybody unconditionally. There is no understanding of ...
Today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year. It is on this Sunday that the Church celebrates the Solemnity of Christ, King of the Universe. It is one of my favorite solemnities. The Church gives ...
In several overarching ways, the particularity of Scripture underlines the particularity of Christ. 1 First, Christ as the only way is grounded on the biblical teaching that there is only one God, the ...
Second, he has an understanding of the law that clearly ... 613. The Kingdom of God is near when love rises above all the other commandments and becomes their foundation. The command to love ...