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Meditating on the Passion Narrative
Notes for the meditation on Luke 23, 1–5: For the Passion narrative Luke uses the sources that had documented the trial of Jesus before...
Feb 2, 202429 min read
Jewish and Christian Passover Celebration in Luke 22.
Notes on Luke 22, 1–2: Luke starts the Passion narrative by recalling that Israel prepares for the celebration of the Passover...
Jan 15, 202433 min read
Daily strive after integrity and happyness
Life we usually meet in the form of an organism that is an organic structure constantly working to maintain its living (Jonas, Hans....
Jan 1, 202425 min read
Synodality and Pope Francis
Many faithful followers think Pope Francis is a Church leader of reform. They will be disillusioned because Pope Francis is no reformer....
Dec 15, 202327 min read
Pope Francis: Popularity but no reform
On 28 February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI had resigned. On 12 March 2013 a conclave was convened to elect a pope to succeed. The next day...
Dec 1, 202325 min read
Spiritualities and discriminations
Since antiquity Christian theologians named the concept of Go’d’s care for the whole world from the beginning to the end of times...
Nov 15, 202324 min read
Jewish, Catholic, Protestant salvation
The Swiss reformed theologian Lukas Vischer participated as observer for the World Council of Churches (WCC) at the Second Vatican...
Oct 30, 202324 min read
Salvation, redemption and liberation in the Christian and Jewish traditions
Before Jesus enters his passion the Synoptic Gospels, that is Marc, Matthew, and Luke, present an apocalyptical speech of Jesus (Marc 13,...
Oct 15, 202320 min read
Meditations on Jesus' stay in Jerusalem Luke 19, 28 - 21, 38.
Forty years ago, I started Bible meditations in the novitiate of the Jesuit Order in Münster, Germany. We novices got notes on a Bible...
Sep 30, 202342 min read
Go'd raising Jesus from the dead
In my Post “The Pharisee Paul became the Apostle Paul” I wrote about the narrative of Luke telling of the conversion of Paul in Acts and...
Sep 14, 202318 min read
Mutuality and Women's Ministry in the Letter to the Romans
Susan Mathew finds in the Pauline greetings in Romans an affirmation of “the mutuality of men and women in Christian ministry” that is...
Aug 30, 202316 min read
The Pharisee Saul became Paul
Paul was a citizen of the Roman Empire and lived in the first century CE. His country of birth was the province Cilicia within the Roman...
Aug 14, 202323 min read
Women, men, and queer in the just world of God
The just world of Go’d. The Apostle Paul testifies to the invisibility of Go’d in the First Letter to Timothy: “Now to the King eternal,...
Aug 1, 202332 min read
How did we learn Christian concepts?
How did we learn Christian biblical concepts? Dei Verbum uses 13 times the expression “salvation”. “Salvation” is a central Jewish and...
Jul 13, 202320 min read
Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum
The citations from the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum are taken from the official Vatican publication in English...
Jul 1, 202330 min read
Inspired authors wrote the Bible
Genesis of the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum The successful intervention by Cardinal Liénart on the second day of...
Jun 15, 202324 min read
Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate
In Nostra Aetate 1.1, the Church claims to examine “more closely her relationship to non-Christian religions” (Paul VI. Declaration on...
May 27, 202325 min read
Ending Roman Catholic Antisemitism
Genesis of the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions The theology for the new relation of the Roman...
May 17, 202327 min read
Theologians at the center and in the periphery
The Second Vatican Council needed expert theologians, canonists, and other experts. They were nominated by the pope and called...
May 12, 202328 min read
Cardinals at the center and in the periphery
The highest-ranking officials of the Roman Catholic Church are the cardinals. They are created by the pope and constitute the College of...
May 1, 202317 min read
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