November 2024
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Christ Our King
The feast of Christ the King was added to the church calendar in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. The Pope explained that while everyone agrees that Christ is King and he reigns in the hearts of men, he also reigns in reality and has the title and the power of King as a man because Continue reading
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Modern Heresies
Deism God is an impersonal force of origin, and he does not intervene in history. Rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge. Contemporary religions are corruptions of a single pure, natural, simple, and rational religion. (Very connected to Freemasonry; many American Founders were Deists.) Enlightenment Rationality A human-centered philosophy and moral system in which Continue reading
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Early Christian and Mediaeval Heresies
Jesus Not Really Man Docetism: The humanity of Jesus is an illusion. He only “seems” like a human but is actually God (divine). Modalism: The three persons of the Trinity are not separate and distinct divine persons but simply three modes or manifestations of one and the same divine being. Apollinarianism: Jesus had a human Continue reading
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Non-Christian Heresies
Animism – all things have spirit & will This is pantheistic system in which all things participate in divinity. All things, even plants and rocks and words, are animated and have their own power to act and a will to choose a course. Atheism – there is no God This is the belief that God Continue reading
Bound in Love 