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Blackfriars, 1940
Because it expresses the ideal at which all must aim, the idea of perfection has always found its place in Christian thought. In the first centuries of vigorous faith strengthened in persecution there was less need for the intellectual systematization that was to come much later.
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Because it expresses the ideal at which all must aim, the idea of perfection has always found its place in Christian thought. In the first centuries of vigorous faith strengthened in persecution there was less need for the intellectual systematization that was to come much later.
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Life of the Spirit, 1949
A few months ago we promised to provide some regular contributions for religious men and women. It has proved a surprisingly difficult task to discover writers willing to undertake this responsible work. However we are fortunate to have secured from the posthumous papers of the late Very Eeverend Father Austin Barker, O.P., S.T.M., a profound and ...
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A few months ago we promised to provide some regular contributions for religious men and women. It has proved a surprisingly difficult task to discover writers willing to undertake this responsible work. However we are fortunate to have secured from the posthumous papers of the late Very Eeverend Father Austin Barker, O.P., S.T.M., a profound and ...
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The Cathars and Christian Perfection
Studies in Church History. Subsidia, 1999The Church’s Founder enjoined the life of perfection on all his followers, but the Cathars were unique in describing themselves as perfect or as ‘good men’. In all other forms of Christianity it is an observable fact that the more devout church members are, the more they are conscious of their imperfections and lack of goodness.
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Blake, Methodism, and “Christian Perfection”
Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, 2021This essay argues that Blake rejected John Wesley’s teaching of “Christian perfection” and examines the implications of this rejection for Blake’s ideas of morality, conduct, and social and sexual freedom. More specifically, it intervenes in discussions of Blake’s relation to eighteenth-century evangelicalism by proposing, at least on the issue of ...
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Christian charity: The perfection of philanthropy
Social Thought, 1981(1981). Christian charity: The perfection of philanthropy. Social Thought: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 15-20.
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Notes on Christian Contemplation and Perfection
Life of the Spirit, 1951A convenient text for these notes is provided by ‘A Challenge from the Cloister', printed in the May issue of the Life of the Spirit. It begins: ‘A Carmelite life in the world does not seem to be really possible'. There is much confusion of mind implicit in this statement, but its elucidation does not call for any profound analysis of the nature of man
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/ Christian Perfection and Its Pretenders
2000Abstract Charles Wesley deemed Christian Perfection one of “the two great truths of the everlasting Gospel” (the other being “universal redemption”). It was the soteriological axis of his theology, a point around which a constellation of redemption themes revolved. Sanctification, as articulated in even his earliest preaching [No. 6],
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Augustinian Reflections on Christian Perfection
The Expository Times, 2010It often proves difficult to make sense of Scriptural passages that command Christians to be perfect. I aim to shed light on the meaning of these passages through a brief study of Augustine’s De Trinitate. According to Augustine, perfection as humans can achieve it is not absolute; it is not a matter of being perfect in all ways as God is, but of ...
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The Human Basis of Christian Perfection Introductory
Life of the Spirit, 1949The subject matter of this essay, in so far as it is concerned with what is called the Obediential Potency, naturally finds no exact place within a course of philosophy properly so-called, when later the student proceeds into formal theology, the divine science, it is customarily assumed that the matter has been already sufficiently studied in the ...
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Christianity and the Death Instinct: Perfect Together?
Pastoral Psychology, 2008This article is a fictional letter. This “letter” is the fourth fictional letter published by the author. In each letter, I take on a different persona and address issues and questions of theological students at Princeton Seminary, all of whom I imagine to be in their early or mid-twenties, because that is when I attended Princeton Seminary (Carlin ...
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