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The Word
Embodied
John Kavanaugh,
S. J.
Setting
Free the Flesh
Freud proposed that science, rather than religion,
might save us from ourselves. The voice of intellect, he said, would he heard
and, he hoped, obeyed. Both in his own thought and in subsequent years, however, it would prove to be
the other way around.
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Historical Cultural
Context
John J. Pilch
God’s
Patronage
Children in the ancient Middle East were the
weakest and most vulnerable members of society. About 30 percent died at birth
or soon after. Thirty percent of live births died by the age of six. Sixty percent
did not live past their sixteenth birthday.
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Thoughts from the
Early Church
John Chrysostom
This is how Christ treats us. He shows pity when a sinner deserves
punishment. When the race that angers him deserves to be annihilated, he addresses
the guilty ones in the kindly words: “Come, learn from me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart.”
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Scripture
In Depth
Reginald H. Fuller
Anxiety is the result of listening to the serpent’s temptation of Adam and Eve: “you will be like God.”
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