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		<title>Contemplation: The Aim of Christian Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term contemplation is derived from the Latin word templum, which referred to a “space in earth or the sky set apart for the sacred examination of animals’ entrails for indications of divine meaning.” Hence the temple became the dwelling place of the gods and the place in which oracles discerned divine meaning and purposes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul:  The Model of Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The theological concept of grace, as it has been received in the West, was profoundly influenced by the writings of Augustine, so much so that he was later referred to as the doctor gratiae. His thought on the subject, built on the earlier transactional language (“accruing merit” and “making satisfaction”) of Tertullian and his intense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning and Telos of Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian spirituality involves an interpretive conversation between the classics of the Christian tradition and contemporary human experience. It is a two-way dialogue, in which we not only bring a critical eye to the text in order to decide what we think is useful to our present situation, but we also aspire to remain open to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Reading from St. Augustine  &#160; We believe in him that he was born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. Each birth of his, you see, must be considered wonderful, both that of his divinity and that of his humanity. The first is from the Father without mother, the second from mother without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Babylon and Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reading from John Chrysostom But why was the Christ child sent into Egypt? The text makes this clear: he was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, out of Egypt have I called my son. (Hos 11:1.) From that point onward we see that the hope of salvation would be proclaimed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Discerning of Spirits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first act of discernment by the apostolic community—the choosing of Matthias to replace Judas—occurred after the ascension of Jesus and before the descent of the Spirit at Pentecost. Two questions were problematic for the early Christian writers interpreting Acts 1. First, why didn’t Jesus appoint Matthias before he departed? And second, was the drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knowledge Born in Silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once a brother came to visit one of the great desert fathers, Abba Moses, and asked him for a word. Moses replied, “Go, sit in your cell, and your cell will teach you everything.” Moses’ instruction was not unusual. Moses believed that only in the silence of the cell would a monk acquire the virtues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemplation: The Aim of Christian Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Jesus’ instruction to call no person rabbi or father, very early in the development of Christianity, in the Egyptian and Palestinian monasteries spiritual elders were referred to as abba (father) or amma (mother). These “fathers” and “mothers” were spiritual parents in the sense that they shared “both the loving kindness of God the Father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lent as a Forty Day Retreat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade Hollywood has become fascinated with prequels. It seems that for every successful fi lm, movie studios want to create an elaborate backstory to reexamine the origins of popular heroes or villains. Some prequels were conceived as prequels at the outset. George Lucas conceived the first Star Wars movie as the fourth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The School of Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many well-meaning evangelists have “softened” the gospel demand “to pick up your cross and follow Me” for the gospel of personal well-being. Or is its source the Bible? Theophylact, the 11th century archbishop of Ohrid (modern day Bulgaria), suggests that even members of early Christian communities believed that life for the faithful, based on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Body An Instrument of the Soul</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The early church struggled to navigate between two competing conceptions of the body—the holistic, biblical view and a dualist, Hellenistic (Platonic) view. The latter view, except in rare circumstances, advocated a strict differentiation between the soul and the body. The former affirmed the body as God’s good creation and made physicality a lasting aspect of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pauline Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Glerup</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My recommended practice is meditating on passages of scripture in relation to the movement of God in history. A surprising fruitful practice for me, I learned from early Christian writers, is to mediate on scripture in light of the Pauline mystery. Let me explain. Peter in his Pentecost address speaks of the “definite plan” of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grateful Each Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I travel to Africa quite often to meet with African academics and church leaders. Recently driving from one worship service to another with the president of a local Seminary, we discussed the difference between these local church worship expressions and those more influenced by western denominations and missionaries. He said the difference in these local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bellies of the Poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the following selection, Augustine contemplates the parable of the rich fool (Lk 12:13-21) in light of Prov. 13:8 “The redemption of a man’s soul is his riches.” Augustine: This silly fool of a man did not have that kind of riches. Obviously he was not redeeming his soul by giving relief to the poor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Healing Presence: Ancient Christian Wisdom for the Post-Modern Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of significant Protestant voices since the Reformation have argued that the early Christian writers, under the dualizing influence of Hellenistic philosophy, made the contemplative life preferable to the life of charitable action. Documentation supporting this thesis was readily available, as in the following passage from John Cassian’s Conferences: As for those works of [...]]]></description>
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