Posts tagged church history
Thales’ circles
“All is water”
Knowledge of revelation cannot interfere with ordinary knowledge. Likewise, ordinary knowledge cannot interfere with knowledge of revelation. There is no scientific theory which is more favorable to the truth of revelation than any other theory. It is disastrous for theology if theologians prefer one scientific view to others on theological grounds. And it was humiliating for theology when theologians were afraid of new theories for religious reasons, trying to resist them as long as possible, and finally giving in when resistance had become impossible. This ill-conceived resistance of theologians from the time of Galileo to the time of Darwin was one of the causes of the split between religion and secular culture in the past centuries.
Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology
Not sure why he’s using the past tense here.
These are scans of a copy of Origen’s Commentary on Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Romans that Augustine owned. The notes in the margins refer to the Pelagian controversy.
The amazing Hannah found the book, which is all scanned online, and sifted through hundreds of pages with me.
I’m not Catholic (at least, I don’t think any Catholics would recognize me as Catholic), but this is my view of church history.
“To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant.” - Bl. John Henry Newman
Update: found the author Saji George
