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'Natural' doesn't mean right
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Wednesday, on National Public Radio, professor Jeffrey Nielsen
said he believes that BYU scientists, upon study, would find that
homosexuality is "natural" or "normal." Let's assume that he is
right. So what? As a Latter-day Saint, I do not consider "natural" a
synonym of right, good or desirable. Rather...
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'Natural' doesn't mean right
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; Wednesday, on National Public Radio, professor Jeffrey Nielsen said he believes that BYU scientists, upon study, would find that homosexuality is "natural" or "normal." Let's assume that he is right. So what? As a Latter-day Saint, I do not consider "natural" a synonym of right, good or desirable.
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Presidency at the Eucharist in the context of the theology of icons: Questions about the ecclesial representation of Christ by the Priesthood
Anglican Theological Review
; ProQuest Information and Learning: Greek characters omitted. Among the churches that have safeguarded the faith and order of the old, undivided church, and to a certain extent also within the ecumenical movement,1 there is a consensus that the bishop or priest when presiding at the eucharist
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The presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the formularies of the Church of England.
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
; I. Preamble On March 18, 1988, at Meissen in Saxony, delegations from the Church of England, the Evangelical Church in Germany (E.K.D and the Federation of Evangelical Churches in the G.D.R. agreed on the Meissen Common Statement: On the Way to Visible Unity.(1) The statement recommended that the
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The Baptism of Christ and Temptations by Michele Tosini: A Lukan Reading1
Interpretation
; For Michele Tosini, the baptism of Christ has profound allusions to Christ's suffering and death. In the Baptism of Christ and Temptations, Tosini is creative in his placement of the temptation narratives and in his selection of the Lukan account. Before discussing the visual depiction of the
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Making Christ: Alice Meynell, poetry, and the eucharist.(Critical Essay)
Christianity and Literature
; We too (one cried), we too, We the unready, the perplexed, the cold, Must shape the Eternal in our thoughts anew, Cherish, possess, enfold. -- To the Mother of Christ The Son of Man Alice Meynell, whose poetry is seldom read or anthologized today, eighty years after her death, was so venerated by
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Calendar and text: Christ's ministry in the York plays and the liturgy.
Medium Aevum
; The modern reader tends to accept that mystery plays are based on the Bible, thereby reading them into an intellectual milieu, the world of the professional Church. Yet we know nothing of the individual authors, and increasingly more, thanks to the efforts of the Records of Early English Drama
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The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and the Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor
Anglican Theological Review
; The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and the Will in the Christology of Saint Maximus the Confessor. By Demetrios Bathrellos. The Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford Universitv Press, 2005. xii + 228 pp. $98.00 (cloth). Demetrios Bathrellos treats the historical and theological
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Revisiting the Franciscan doctrine of Christ.
Theological Studies
; KARL RAHNER, in his remarkable essay Christology within an Evolutionary View of the World, noted that the Scotistic doctrine of Christ has never been objected to by the Church's magisterium, (1) although one might add, it has never been embraced by the Church either. According to this doctrine, the
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'Heaven and earth in little space': the foetal existence of Christ in medieval literature and thought.(Critical essay)
Medium Aevum
; Christ in his humanity, God made Man, was, without doubt, the central focus of artistic endeavour in the later Middle Ages. Images of the holy infant, beatific in his vulnerability, or of Christ's Passion, are ubiquitous, and testimony to the late medieval preoccupation with the human body of God.
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Christ and the Gethsemane of Mind: Frank Weston Then and Now
Anglican Theological Review
; The Burning Babe of Bethlehem on him smil'd: . . . A Black Christ bowed beneath a Heart-Break load.1 "So Grandmamma inquired snippily, 'Who are these Anglo-Catholics, my dear? One seems to hear so much of them in these days. I can't help thinking they are rather noisy,' as she might have spoken of
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