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The origins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/ec7111ff-7eab-490c-89d5-ce25b967d7e7/Conscious+Chart.jpeg Synthesis Writings - What is the Riddle of the Sphinx: Part I. The origins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/22a8a5f3-c1e2-4815-bc4d-be56d99a0594/Oedipus+Rex.webp Synthesis Writings - What is the Riddle of the Sphinx: Part I. The origins - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/what-is-the-riddle-of-the-sphinx-part-2 monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/af8b7ff4-ebf9-4755-93f9-49f85b7c9011/Oedipus+Rex.webp Synthesis Writings - What is the Riddle of the Sphinx: Part II. From sight to blindness; blindness to sight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/psalm-supersriptions-part-ii-insights-on-the-paradox-of-healing-from-athanasius-and-calvin-gggwa monthly 0.5 2026-02-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/2980c534-0f91-409c-a9ac-6c291d1a89e0/Seneca.webp Synthesis Writings - The Paradox of Healing: From the “stoa” of ancient Greece through Athanasius and Calvin into the world of modern neuroscience - Make it stand out The Death of Seneca by Manuel Dominguez Sanchez, 1871. Museo del Prado https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-parable-of-the-rich-fool-and-basils-homily-i-will-tear-down-my-barns-and-build-bigger-ones-r8ft9-rzeha monthly 0.5 2026-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/3b4c05b2-7b9c-41f8-9197-2d3b53296c16/Basil+and+the+fanine.jpg Synthesis Writings - Paráklēsis and the Paráklētos: Pathways to true and false consolation with Basil’s formation of a “New City” amidst the rubble of famine, disease, greed and social collapse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/prayer-and-the-aorist-tense-a-horz-opening-to-completed-realities-beyond-the-horizon-horz-of-time monthly 0.5 2026-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1c63ce43-6118-4c2a-8402-b3ca1d2428f1/Incarnation%2C+Copic+icon.jpg Synthesis Writings - The Timeless Tense, Part I. The Aorist (A + Horízō) in the Incarnation: The fullness of eternity piercing the “horizons” of time - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/seven-transformative-words-the-holy-spirit-lovesbut-most-christians-never-say-roger-bennett monthly 0.5 2025-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/aff0589c-fa11-4b82-86cc-45788fe26abf/Spirit+and+Transformation.jpg Synthesis Writings - Seven Transformative Words the Holy Spirit Speaks…But Most Christians Never Say (Roger Bennett) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/delighting-yourself-in-the-fathers-love-an-extraordinary-synthesis-roger-bennett-text-audio monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/18139d24-5e79-4a2b-8dc2-754ce69584b1/Veneration+of+the+Magi.jpg Synthesis Writings - The Experiential Dimensions of the Father’s Love: An extraordinary synthesis (Roger Bennett, Audio + Text) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/reclaiming-the-heavens-a-christocentric-cosmology-for-an-age-of-collapse-brewer-ames monthly 0.5 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/8134bd9a-d21f-4965-94c6-516781944a3b/Cosmic+Christ.jpg Synthesis Writings - Reclaiming the Heavens: A Christocentric Cosmology for an Age of Collapse (Brewer Ames) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-dual-nature-of-flourishing-part-ii monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/74fa681e-a964-4765-a212-06c463e3f5a0/Jesus+Tree+of+Life.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Dual Nature of Flourishing: From Psalm 73 (through II Corinthians) to Psalm 92—The continual tension between true and counterfeit flourishing - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/co-crucifixion-systaur-and-co-burial-synthpteach-and-every-momentthat-makes-us-alive-synz monthly 0.5 2026-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/f153d707-c6c5-4b4d-a29b-c4bafcb832fb/Crucifixion+of+Jesus.jpeg Synthesis Writings - A Flourishing Life? The tension of life lived between the 3rd and 4th dimensions and the paradoxical pathway through, Part I - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/a-flourishing-life monthly 0.5 2024-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/f5ecbfc6-f98f-4682-913a-475f5edc9626/Crucifixion+of+Jesus.jpeg Synthesis Writings - A Flourishing Life? The tension of life lived between the 3rd and 4th dimensions and the paradoxical pathway through, Part II - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-place-of-gratitude-in-the-christian-life-an-address-by-fr-thomas-hopko monthly 0.5 2024-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/e1e51c61-a86a-4fa8-8cf3-effcacca40a9/Fr.+Thomas+Hopko.jpg Synthesis Writings - Suffering Mindsets: “Constant and perpetual gratitude in and for everyone and everything, in all circumstances, particularly in afflictions and in sufferings.” An address by Fr. Thomas Hopko (Audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-deceiving-power-of-good-works-and-fair-speeches-chrstologa-why-nominalism-will-always-grow-up-together monthly 0.5 2026-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/43a69126-574b-43ce-99e4-b9191ae53a2c/orthodox+icon+parable+of+the+wheat+and+tares+at+DuckDuckGo.png Synthesis Writings - The Metanoiaics of Suffering, Part II. Dimensional insight from the Parable of the Wheat and Tares: “An enemy has done this…” - Make it stand out The Parable of the Wheat and the Tares https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/3808ffbc-358b-4256-9e4c-fb4e289805ba/Wheat+and+Tares.png Synthesis Writings - The Metanoiaics of Suffering, Part II. Dimensional insight from the Parable of the Wheat and Tares: “An enemy has done this…” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/ig3mp5nj9n91nbyhssftonwohadt1p monthly 0.5 2023-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/38b402ab-1074-413a-9a6b-20a1394b0c9b/IMG_3161.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The History and Formulation of the Westminster Larger Catechism: An interview with Chad Van Dixhorn of RTS, Charlotte (Audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/zjtzn35szl1gfb152t7jwifxc0v3ul monthly 0.5 2026-02-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/dbf755b3-14f1-4702-8283-6095358815e0/IMG_2922.jpeg Synthesis Writings - “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness”: The weakness, silence and death of dûwmîyâh (דּוּמִיָּה) in an experiential synthesis of a mysterious paradox - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-prayer-of-the-publican-the-jesus-prayer-and-the-lords-prayer monthly 0.5 2025-04-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/631b5cf8-0b63-40b1-b722-f76f684f1676/IMG_1723.jpg Synthesis Writings - The Prayer of the Publican, The Jesus Prayer, Merkabah (“chariot”) Mysticism and Modern Hymnody - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/nnjjwjj3wdkusntsap1anzu8dobf67 monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/aec10cfc-9421-4c7a-b5d4-302a9c61257f/IMG_3069.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Word: “Working miracles, transforming lives & calling worlds into existence” (Dr. Blair Smith, RTS, audio) - Make it stand out Christ, the Creator of this World https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/8potpmb8g2eudjzhckekxi0lht8zrx monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/db71903d-a10c-4f15-b5e0-b424909048ec/Christ+the+Healer.png Synthesis Writings - Part IV. From Dartmouth to the Prisons of PA to Kona, HI: The formation of Kingdom healthcare models with the spiritual gifts operating and the power to heal (Bob Doe, Kylie, audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/wb6bx1hibuon289068nltdc8rsuph1 monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/46cf5c57-f370-4607-b9e9-05ed98ae46de/orthodox+icon+kingdom+heaven+at+DuckDuckGo.png Synthesis Writings - Part III. “Let me show you the King by showing you His Kingdom”: Confronting bondage and breaking through into Kingdom deliverance & healing (Josiah Centeno, audio + video) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/1k78dsqi2aspjpz6omvaw81j9shtsm monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/d34a08ea-7b10-40db-8740-9fdc4961d00d/IMG_2872.jpeg Synthesis Writings - Part II: Into the Tabernacle in the Wilderness to meet the Bridegroom (Emily Valler, audio + video) - Make it stand out Jesus the Bridegroom https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/08ybglf5z22qyow7myf38wz4j7kqyo monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/98bbd94f-3f2d-4b52-bb3e-9a5fe7216a90/IMG_2871.jpeg Synthesis Writings - Part I: Love, Prophecy & Words of Knowledge, An experiential Synthesis (Jon Rosene, audio + video) with a word on the Reformed position on Spiritual Gifts in light of Christian Mysticism - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/how-do-we-receive-anything-from-the-lord-one-word-humility monthly 0.5 2023-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/df859023-9df9-4ea2-975e-81d9da115746/Tree+of+Life.jpg Synthesis Writings - “How do we receive anything from the Lord?” One word: “Humility” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-false-heart-amplified-or-the-true-heart-revealed monthly 0.5 2023-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/0cd8940b-73a2-40d7-9314-c8bcdc5cbec8/In+the+Desert.jpg Synthesis Writings - The False Heart Amplified or The True Heart Revealed: Poetry and religion in expressing, confronting Reality as it really is, Part I. Crane, the Ten Plagues and the state of the heart - Make it stand out In the Desert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/dd2a1d42-6e73-4390-b30b-ec82d4cf861e/Papyrus+of+Ani+Weighing+of+the+Heart.jpg Synthesis Writings - The False Heart Amplified or The True Heart Revealed: Poetry and religion in expressing, confronting Reality as it really is, Part I. Crane, the Ten Plagues and the state of the heart - Make it stand out The Weighing of the Heart https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-place-where-eternity-whispers-affliction-suffering-and-the-sacrament-of-the-present-moment monthly 0.5 2023-09-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/a8fe19e4-416a-45e5-aabc-d3d6739ba3e3/Elijah.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Place Where Eternity Whispers: Affliction, Suffering and the Sacrament of the Present Moment - Make it stand out Elijah and the ‘still, small voice’ https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/seven-genre-bible-reading-plan monthly 0.5 2023-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/b1c05add-23dd-45dd-a42c-21496ef23767/Christ+the+Word.jpeg Synthesis Writings - Seven Genre Bible Reading Plan: All genres of Scripture every day through the course of the calndar year - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/a-glimpse-of-kingdom-centered-healthcare-in-action-video-bob-doe monthly 0.5 2023-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/a7558404-071e-4922-b414-3330cb6b8a52/Jesus+and+Healing.jpeg Synthesis Writings - A Glimpse of Kingdom-Centered Healthcare in Action (Bob Doe, audio + video) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/-part-iii-models-of-deliverance-ministry-ron-klaus monthly 0.5 2022-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/cddb315f-4b81-4a5b-98da-2fc21aeb16e4/IMG_1483.jpg Synthesis Writings - “The only thing more foolish than counseling a demon is casting out a psychological problem”: Five decades of insight, Part III. Models of Deliverance Ministry (Ron Klaus) - Make it stand out Jesus Pantocrator https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the monthly 0.5 2022-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/26d36a61-edf8-4061-89b7-ab084dd499e6/The_Ladder_of_Divine_Ascent_Monastery_of_St_Catherine_Sinai_12th_century.jpeg Synthesis Writings - “The only thing more foolish than counseling a demon is casting out a psychological problem”: Five decades of insight, Part II. The Etiology of Evil: The World, the Flesh and the Devil (Ron Klaus) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/5lmgj5pmvqbuf5foy8j2pbyk4khqd6 monthly 0.5 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/f8c45aba-de79-4f82-975c-cdaf95f2780e/Jesus+Healer.jpeg Synthesis Writings - “The only thing more foolish than counseling a demon is casting out a psychological problem”: Five decades of insight into dealing with the demonic, Part I: Introduction (Ron Klaus) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-reflections-of-abba-zosmias-a-monk-of-the-palestinian-desert monthly 0.5 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/0a1dc694-eee0-4031-84b7-33986331ed6c/abba+zosimas+of+palestine+orthodox+icon+at+DuckDuckGo.png Synthesis Writings - Conflict, Criticism & the Reflections of Abba Zosimas on the “Burning Medicine of Jesus” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-sabbath-part-i-dfks-final-chapter-of-creation-amp-changethe-sabbath-day-and-the-orientation-of-the-whole-created-order-towards-worship-of-god monthly 0.5 2022-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/073a28f3-ac0c-4fc4-8e33-c2dffc81a462/IMG_1438.jpg Synthesis Writings - Sabbath Rest, Part I. “The Sabbath Day and the Orientation of the Whole Created Order towards Worship of God”: DFK’s final chapter of “Creation & Change” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/ieawxikusb11cltantw63od0v0519z monthly 0.5 2022-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/e8aa11e0-a823-4c55-b2e1-e5e7ad141cbe/IMG_1408.jpg Synthesis Writings - “Gratitude in Life’s Trenches”: An Interview with Robin Phillips (audio + text) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/vjvwjxvdbna8hisd5dfps9kihabouq monthly 0.5 2022-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/7cfca8e2-fee9-4fa8-ab3f-d19445645854/image0+%281%29.jpeg Synthesis Writings - Microchurches: The living organism of a developing, innovative, resilient church within the context of rapid change and the koinonia of suffering: Insights from East Asia (audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/kelly-kapic monthly 0.5 2022-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/9b5b3d7c-c6d8-4ab4-abee-e18bb78e9376/embodied+hope+kapic+at+DuckDuckGo.png Synthesis Writings - Faith, Hope & Love: A Pastoral & Theological Meditation on Suffering (Kelly Kapic, audio + video) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/mdahj9rd4ztb2gro429ld8pwdk3yb5 monthly 0.5 2022-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/6ae30a79-4d4b-441c-a6a0-fca1996b14f5/IMG_1245.jpg Synthesis Writings - The Fourth Way: Experiential insight into discipleship in a closed country amidst civil war and pandemic (audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/12mf8bk6owvfxnp1lsyfc23dthbl4x monthly 0.5 2022-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/b617d7bd-fcb4-4a8d-85c8-c342f0a1197f/IMG_1215.jpg Synthesis Writings - Discipleship as a Path of Stewarding Hope with Persevering Grit: I Sam 17:54, An Historical Synthesis from Abraham through David to Calvary (Audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-still-small-voice-and-the-roar-from-outside-insights-from-the-gulags monthly 0.5 2024-09-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/0be3ef24-5a5e-40a2-a21e-322da583f50d/Iconostasis.jpg Synthesis Writings - The Place Where Paradox Speaks, Part I. The Coincidence of Opposites: An entrance into greater fullness or a passage into the borderlands of deception? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/pavel-florensky-key-passages-from-iconostasis monthly 0.5 2022-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/89cb28ac-df95-4fb2-9a43-ca2c6d5b165c/Pavel+Florensky+Iconostasis+at+DuckDuckGo.png Synthesis Writings - Why the world is so drawn to, even obsessed by, the “spiritual”: Insights from Pavel Florensky’s “Iconostasis” - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/scriptural-witness-to-paradox monthly 0.5 2024-09-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/a8f9c940-dd0c-4bc2-9bbc-eb57ffdf39b1/Iconostasis.jpg Synthesis Writings - “All Orthodoxy is Paradoxy”: The Scriptural witness to paradox as that which expresses eternity breaking into the finite, fallen realm - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/xn70c4ll0xudyqa2f7lx5r39ip8p6f monthly 0.5 2021-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/94d44bfb-643b-484b-9f7b-34cd5653f2e3/Apostle_Paul_2.jpg Synthesis Writings - Brokenness in Christian Ministry: Douglas F. Kelly on II Cor 4.6-18 (audio) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/eriwnxersxsma1v43z43bz75lph10o monthly 0.5 2021-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/d6c6f59c-3679-441d-8307-4d792d4fc666/The+Scourging.jpg Synthesis Writings - Rejected With Christ: The Innerworkings of the Final Beatitude (by Laramie Brown, missionary to Haiti, Slovenia & Marseilles) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/testing-in-community-a-word-from-the-founder-of-medical-campus-outreach-amp-harvards-longwood-christian-community monthly 0.5 2022-10-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/c821f0a3-8aeb-43b9-9a3e-43b1c7dd25f7/Red+Sea.jpeg Synthesis Writings - Testing in Developing Gospel-Centered Community: A word from the founder of Medical Campus Outreach & Harvard’s Longwood Christian Community (Bill Pearson) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-heart-its-hardening-pharaoh-amp-the-papyrus-of-ani monthly 0.5 2021-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/e1de4761-9bcf-44fe-9c73-d922661afedd/Papyrus+of+Ani.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Heart, Its Hardening, Pharaoh & The Papyrus of Ani—and How That Might Just Determine Everything - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/up2jh5geqm7g8kjqrmbpy8e4wrqdcn monthly 0.5 2021-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/0a6fc806-1719-459c-a2b5-9d88035e2ca7/Inferno.jpeg Synthesis Writings - Community, Genuine & Contrived, Dante, Peck’s Four Stages of Community and the Necessity of Our Ongoing Peirasmós (or Why relationships fail, marriages break apart and communities disintegrate) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/2s4ht7k876a6bzf23hte7t2zjoy0yh monthly 0.5 2021-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/97b18a6d-b3a5-4a8d-a9e2-26bb868d8026/Cloud+of+Witnesses.jpg Synthesis Writings - You Become Whom You Admire: Insights from Zagzebski’s Virtue of the Mind (Audio + Text, Matt Miller, MDiv, DMin) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/04nqtbeergjlqpna59jn2k7tx17hu9 monthly 0.5 2021-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/fba5d0ca-0a0b-4569-a405-1f716cccbd7c/image0.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Holy Spirit and the Unconscious: Insights from Douglas F. 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Medicine, The Clinician and Money https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/iv-50-days-of-readings-on-the-holy-spirit-prophets-into-wisdom-gt-john monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606344263164-HBIOFL4E3D9L46396YB2/HS+IV.jpeg Synthesis Writings - IV. 50 Days of Readings on the Holy Spirit: Prophets into Wisdom -> John https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/50-days-of-readings-on-the-holy-spirit-the-prophets-gt-mark monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606343985651-TVQYQY0SZ9UXGWAY6NHR/HS+III.jpeg Synthesis Writings - III. 50 Days of Readings on the Holy Spirt: Prophets-> Mark https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/50-days-of-readings-on-the-holy-spirit-part-ii-the-histories-gt-gospel-of-luke monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606344405332-5FLIUIAAFRI7U3Y01MQU/HS+II.jpg Synthesis Writings - II. 50 Days of Readings on the Holy Spirit: Histories-> Luke https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/50-days-of-ot-nt-readings-on-the-holy-spirit-the-pentateuch-matthew monthly 0.5 2020-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1604775431044-3CZB0UV46KVX581QECZD/Descent+of+the+Holy+Spirit+Icon.jpg Synthesis Writings - 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The Seven Last Words From The Cross https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-kingdom-coming-great-amp-holy-monday-through-wednesday monthly 0.5 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1586281470100-VMWSJWTVK6T5BJWLCANP/Christ+The+Bridegroom.jpg Synthesis Writings - The Kingdom Coming: Great & Holy Monday through Wednesday https://careofthewholeperson.org/syntheses-1/the-kingdom-coming-lazarus-saturday-into-palm-sunday monthly 0.5 2020-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1586118110168-IIBPWI8QBVZA6M35DZTK/Lazarus+Saturday.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Kingdom Coming: Lazarus Saturday into Palm Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1586118976094-HGX3SJ89GC4IPFNLOPH0/Palm+Sunday+1.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Kingdom Coming: Lazarus Saturday into Palm Sunday https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1586119053906-EX5QN1VLDK7EGR80T7BP/Palm+Sunday+2.jpeg Synthesis Writings - The Kingdom Coming: Lazarus Saturday into Palm Sunday https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies daily 0.75 2026-04-02 https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/-ek-pi-rad-zo-the-infernal-counterpart-to-peirzo-and-peirasmstesting-which-seeks-not-to-reveal-and-refine-but-to-destroy-cmzkr monthly 0.5 2026-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/c0099007-015f-430b-bf8e-80fea3a5f364/Bronze+Serpant.jpg The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - Ekpeirázō (ἐκπειράζω): The infernal counterpart to peirázo and peirasmós—“Hypertesting”: An attribute of false communities which seeks not to reveal and refine but to destroy - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/uhghcu9hu8iyphauffyp9iwb1b59rf-99p94 monthly 0.5 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/018c5e4e-a0e7-4df2-8fd9-fa02b1b2a0bf/The+Parable+of+the+Sower.jpg The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - Hypomonḗ (ὑπομονή). Part I: Persevering endurance as the Spirit plants the seed of the Kingdom in the now “beautiful ground” of our Heart enabling us to endure all the trials (thlîpsis) of life - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/psalm-supersriptions-part-ii-insights-on-the-paradox-of-healing-from-athanasius-and-calvin monthly 0.5 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/2980c534-0f91-409c-a9ac-6c291d1a89e0/Seneca.webp The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - Psalm Superscriptions: Part III. The Paradox of Healing: From the “stoa” of ancient Greece through Athanasius and Calvin into the world of modern neuroscience - Make it stand out The Death of Seneca by Manuel Dominguez Sanchez, 1871. Museo del Prado https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/psalm-superscriptions-part-ii-the-historicity-of-the-psalms-psalm-110-and-the-fifth-gospel-of-psalm-22-through-rabbinic-interpretation-into-the-church-fathers monthly 0.5 2026-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/74a5f850-d9f0-4329-bb04-59d28fbe3794/King+David.jpg The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - Psalm Superscriptions: Part II. The Historicity of the Psalms: Ps 110 and Ps 22—the “Fifth Gospel—through Rabbinic interpretation into the Church Fathers - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/psalm-superscriptions-scribal-additions-or-an-important-key-which-unlocks-a-world-of-understanding monthly 0.5 2026-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/3b4684f4-9a8d-4bad-b690-dbe9b7d65d74/David.jpg The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - Psalm Superscriptions: Part I. Scribal additions or an “important key which unlocks” a “world of understanding”? - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/midbar monthly 0.5 2026-02-02 https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/the-parable-of-the-rich-fool-and-basils-homily-i-will-tear-down-my-barns-and-build-bigger-ones monthly 0.5 2026-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/3b4c05b2-7b9c-41f8-9197-2d3b53296c16/Basil+and+the+fanine.jpg The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - Paráklēsis and the Paráklētos: Pathways to true and false consolation with Basil’s formation of a “New City” amidst the rubble of famine, disease, greed and social collapse - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://careofthewholeperson.org/the-life-of-words-hebrew-greek-word-studies/why-do-you-speak-in-parables-parabol-par-bll monthly 0.5 2026-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/8f16274b-5326-4a7e-a2e7-558b00de073c/Sea+of+Galilee.jpg The Life of Words: Hebrew & Greek Word Studies - “Why do You speak in parables” (parabolḗ: pará + bállō)? 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Josiah Trenham which provides an overview of the writings of Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp of Smyrna, etc. Single lecture overview by Dr. Douglas F. Kelly with a further lecture on the next generation of The Apologists) The Texts Additional Text from the philospher, Aristides, from his defense of Christianity before Hadrian in 125 A.D. (See section XV for a description of the Christian…) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1588020749640-15CNY24HYJ76PK08Q9V6/image-asset.jpeg Transformation: I. The Patristic Foundations - THE DESERT FATHERS Antony the Great (251-356) The father and founder of desert monasticism, who pursued the Gospel call of spiritual formation (Mt. 19:21) through decades of demonic warfare and the trials of desert solitude, returning after 35 yrs to spend the next half century forming spiritual communities that would bring life in the wilderness for the coming millennia Athanasius The Life of Antony The 38 Sayings of Antony Fr. Thomas Hopko: “I urge you, and, if I could, I would command you, to read St. Anthony’s thirty-eight sayings… Everything we need to know in order to live is there for us in its simplest and clearest form” Introductory Lectures by Fr. Thomas Hopko (absolutely indispensable): Part I Part II Part III Q & A The Sayings of the Desert Fathers Complete Alphabetical List of the Sayings (transl. by Benedicta Ward) Thematic Listing John Climacus The Ladder of Divine Ascent Written c. 600 A.D. at the request of his fellow Abbot of Raithu in Sinai, the work follows the Christian life through a pathway of thirty "steps", having as the Model the thirty years of Jesus before his active ministry. Kallistos Ware has written of it that “With the exception of the Bible and the service books, there is no work in Eastern Christendom that has been studied, copied and translated more often than the Ladder of Divine Ascent.” This lecture by Thomas Hopko provides an excellent introduction and overview of the work This podcast offers a line-by-line commentary of the work Note: This important work from the 19th c., carries Climacus’ teachings from the Ladder forward into Modern era. The Arena by Ignatius Brianchaninov https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1585956943768-57EBVFNS03PDS10QC14G/image-asset.jpeg Transformation: I. The Patristic Foundations THE NICENE FATHERS Athanasius, Chrysostom, Augustine— The Flourishing: Introductory Lectures Thomas Hopko (1939-2015) Initially Professor of Dogmatic Theology (succeeding Serge Verkhovskoy) and later Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, he was the son-in-law of Alexander Schmemann and exerted a great effect of renewal within the Orthodox Church in America. 8-part series on the Nicene Creed Thomas F. Torrance Featured in the section on Tacit Knowledge, we offer his 8-part series on the Nicene Creed These lectures come from the Warfield Lectures of 1981 that formed the framework of his later book, The Trinitarian Faith, thought to be one of the most important theologic contributions of the 20th century:: “Creatively working with the Greek Fathers of the time (the ancient church), Torrance follows the mind (phronēma) of the catholic church in constructing an account of the triune persons that, while theologically dense, is not a species of scholastic synthesis, but rather an example of dogmatic theology (catholic), where the biblical and economic witness (evangelical) take precedence over theological propositions.” John Meyendorff (1926-1992) Former professor of Church History at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, Meyendorff later joined the faculty of St. Vladimir’s, acting as the Dean from 1984-1992 directly following the death of Alexander Schmemann Patristics 201: Beginning with Tertullian and Cyprian of Carthage through the Nicene Fathers Patristics 367 The Fathers presented through the lens of Gregory Palamas (1296-1357) Douglas F. Kelly Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary whose lectures are also featured in ‘the next section under “The Word” and “The Body of Christ” Patristic Theology: Tracing the formation of vital Christian orthodoxy from the Apostolic Fathers through the Apologists to Irenaeus and later Hippolytus of Rome in their response to Gnosticism (which heresy is still at work in our era..) to Origen and the Alexandrian School then to Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers and the Cappadocian Father, Gregory Nazianzus Key Theological Figures Athanasius The disciple of Antony, in whose community he sojourned during his third exile (of a total of five!). The year of Antony’s death in 356 marked the date that Athanasius began writing the Life of Antony, which would become one of the most influential biographies in the history of the Church, East and West. On the Incarnation of the Word Letters to Serapion On the Holy Spirit Chrysostom Also spiritually formed in the desert communities until being forced out in 381 to be made deacon in Antioch, from where his “golden tongue” oratory moved him to become Bishop of Constantinople and one of the greatest Fathers of the East. 6 Homilies on Wealth and Poverty taken from the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus Select Homilies and Treatises from “Concerning Lowliness of Mind” to “No Man Can Harm the Man That Does Not Injure Himself” to the fascinating intrigues of “Eutropius”, here are displayed the heights of Chrysostom’s oratory brilliance. Homilies on the Gospel of John and Epistle to the Hebrews offering an introduction to his comprehensive exegesis that formed a synthesis between the Antiochene and Alexandrian schools. Four additional volumes in the NPNF series Augustine Set on the pathway of metanoia the same year as Chrysostom was made a deacon in Antioch—381 A.D.—A year that would mark the birth of two of the greatest Fathers of East and West The Confessions Homily, Mt. 10:28, Be not afraid of them that kill the body https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606302238511-SHTGCCES22G7K8H6L4E6/image-asset.jpeg Transformation: I. The Patristic Foundations THE CAPPADOCIAN FATHERS Basil of Caesarea Six overview lectures by Fr. Maximos Constas on his life and teaching On the Holy Spirit Sermon to the Rich On Social Justice: Four recently translated homilies on texts such as Mt 19.16-22, “To the Rich” [The translation of which is available above] and “I Will Tear Down My Barns” (Lk 12:16-21), which were likely written in 368 during the greatest famine in the history of Caesarea. 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Torrance and Realist Epistemology Emerging out of post-Enlightenment Western reductionism which had become progressively void of the spiritual realm, there emerged a new term with no spiritual underpinnings—the unconscious—that encapsulated all that lay outside of our conscious-level knowledge. With the rise of Freud then Jung in the psychological sciences, in the physical then philosophical worlds there entered Michael Polanyi. He began his career as a brilliant physical chemist, whose work on the adsorption of gasses (completed while he was convalescing from Diphtheria in a WWI army hospital), should have won him the Nobel Prize. Passed over due to his Jewish background, he, nonetheless secured a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm institute for Physical and Electrical Chemistry. When he was ultimately forced to flee Germany in the middle of the night as Hitler’s rise with intensifying anti-Semitic legislation threatened his life with that of his family, he emigrated to England. There he was given a 100% research position at the University of Manchester. With complete academic autonomy, he then began a massive philosophical endeavor which we’re only just now beginning to understand and apply. Coming to be known as a philosophy of science, Polanyi’s work formed a pathway out of Enlightenment reductionism, philosophical Positivism and its resulting Scientism, towards a true Scientific Realism where the objective was intricately tied, and indeed, developed out of the personal, subjective experiences and moral commitments of the knower. As a true, high-level academic scientist himself with a vital faith that enabled him to grasp both the theological and philosophical foundations of epistemology, he is truly a rare and massively important voice in the age-old debate over faith and science. In the words of Lesslie Newbigin, “Polanyi traced the source of the trouble in a false ideal of ‘objectivity’. in the illusion that there could be a kind of knowing from which the knowing subject—a human being shaped by historical, cultural and psychological factors—is eliminated or ignored. The effect of this false ideal was to relegate a vast amount of what human beings know to the realm of the ‘subjective.’ Polanyi, as a working scientist rather than a philosopher of science, knew well the personal factors which shape all scientific work, the learning of skills, and the personal gifts of intuition, imagination, judgment, courage and patience without which scientific advance would never happen. In the preface to his major work he gives a succinct description of his central concern. After speaking of the personal participation of the knower in the act of knowing, he goes on: ‘But this does not make our understanding subjective. Comprehension is neither an arbitrary act nor a passive experience but a responsible act claiming universal validity. Such knowing is indeed objective in the sense of establishing contact with a hidden reality, contact that is defined as the condition for anticipating an indefinite range of as yet unknown (and perhaps inconceivable) true implications. It seems reasonable to describe this fusion of the personal and the objective as “Personal Knowledge” (Personal Knowledge pp. vii-viii). As we shall see below, his work has been carried forward in the theological worlds through the work of Thomas F. Torrance who was a great friend and colleague of Polanyi and, before his death, his literary executor. More below. Before a brief timeline of Polanyi’s life, the following are some key resources that enable a greater grasp on Polanyi’s work and legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1605366330866-K7W82FTRUZZQLUJIPSWO/The+Polanyi+Puzzle_0.jpg Subversion: Tacit Knowledge & Realist Epistemology - Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) Tacit Knowing. Truthful Knowing The Life and Thought of Michael Polanyi Mars Hill Audio Michael Polanyi and the Christian Faith —A Personal Report by Thomas F. Torrance Everyman Revisited The common sense of Michael Polanyi by Drusilla Scott Science, Faith & Society by Michael Polanyi, 1946 Personal Knowledge: Towards a post-critical philosophy by Michael Polanyi, 1958 The Structure of Consciousness by Michael Polanyi, 1965 The Tacit Dimension by Michael Polanyi, 1966 (Developed from the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale in 1962) BIOGRAPHY 1891 - Born in Budapest to wealthy secular Jewish parents His father a lead architect of the Hungarian railroad system until his bankruptcy in 1899 His mother an avid thinker who established a salon for the intellectual elite 1914 - Medical degree Scholarship to study chemistry at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany 1916 - enlisted in the the Austro-Hungarian army as a medical officer, serving on the Serbian front. While recovering from Diptheria in 1916, he wrote a PhD thesis on adsorption, which was later encouraged by Albert Einstein and under Gusztáv Buchböck was awarded a doctorate at the University of Budapest in 1919 1918 - appointed Secretary to the Minister of Health. When Communists seized power in March 1919 and the the Hungarian Soviet Republic subsequently overthrown, Polanyi emigrated to Karlsruhe in Germany He was invited by Fritz Haber to join the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Faserstoffchemie in Berlin. 1923 - Conversion to Christianity, and in a Roman Catholic ceremony married Magda Elizabeth Kemeny. 1926 - Appointed as professorial head of department of the Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie 1929 - Birth of first son, John, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1986 1933 - Move to the University of Manchester where appointed head of the department of physical chemistry Two his pupils, Eugene Wigner and Melvin Calvin went on to win a Nobel Prize 1935 - Meeting with Bucharin in Moscow regarding the place of science within the state Transition from science to philosophy On the path towards unity in science through intuition, 1935 “The supreme task of the physicist is the search for those highly universal laws from which a picture of the world can be obtained by pure deduction. There is no logical path leading to these laws. They are only to be reached by intuition based upon something like intellectual love.” From the Preface of Personal Knowledge, “Comprehension is neither an arbitrary act nor a passive experience, but a responsible act claiming universal validity. Such knowing is indeed objective in the sense of establishing contact with a hidden reality; a contact that is defined as the condition for anticipating an indeterminate range of yet unknown (and perhaps yet inconceivable) true implications.” KEY IDEAS (All very, very relevant to medicine) Tacit Knowledge Polanyi on the intuition of his own PhD thesis (that, again, should have earned the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the interwar period were it not for his Jewish "The Professor of Mathematical Physics, to whom my paper was assigned, had never heard of my subject matter. He studied my work bit by bit and then asked me to explain a curious point; my result seemed correct but its derivation faulty. -> Admitting my mistake, I said that surely one first draws one's conclusions and then puts their derivation right. The professor just stared at me." He did not start from formal reasoning leading to logical conclusions, but from a few conclusions to which his own experience led him inescapably... The functional, semantic, and phenomenal aspects of tacit knowledge The Structure of Consciousness, 1965 Tacit knowing integrates the particulars of a comprehensive entity and makes us see them forming the entity. This integration recognizes the higher principle at work on the boundary conditions left open by the lower principle, by mentally performing the workings of the higher principle. It thus materializes the functional structure of tacit knowing. It also makes it clear to us how the comprehensive entity works by revealing the meaning of its parts. We have here the semantic aspect of tacit knowing. And since a comprehensive entity is controlled as a whole by a higher principle than the one which controls its isolated parts, the entity will look different than an aggregate of its parts. Its higher principle will endow it with a stability and power appearing in its shape and motions and usually produce also additional novel features. We have here the phenomenal aspect of tacit knowing. And finally, we are presented also with an ontological counterpart of the logical disintegration caused by switching our attention from the integrating centre of a comprehensive entity to its particulars. To turn our attention from the actions of the higher principle, which defines the two-levelled entity, and direct it to the lower principle controlling the isolated parts of the entity is to lose sight of the higher principle and indeed of the whole entity controlled by it. This mirrors the destruction of a comprehensive entity when it is pulled to pieces. The logical structure of tacit knowing thus covers in every detail the ontological structure of a combined pair of levels. This brings forth the two levels of awareness: the lower one for the clues, the parts or other subsidiary elements and the higher one for the focally apprehended comprehensive entity to which these elements point. A deliberate act of consciousness has therefore not only an identifiable object as its focal point, but also a set of subsidiary roots which function as clues to its object or as parts of it. On the transmission of tacit knowledge; the role of apprenticeship to a master (Personal Knowledge, p. 55) An art which cannot be specified in detail cannot be transmitted by prescription since no prescription for it exists. It can be passed on only by example from master to apprentice...It follows that an art that has fallen into disuse for the period of a generation. There are hundreds of examples of this to which the process of mechanization is continuously adding new ones. These losses are usually irretrievable. It is pathetic to watch the endless efforts—equipped with microscopy and chemistry, with mathematics and electronics—to reproduce a single violin of the kind the half-literate Stradivarius turned out as a matter of routine more than 200 years ago. To learn by example is to submit to authority. You follow your master because you trust his manner of doing things even when you cannot analyze and account in detail for its effectiveness. By watching the master and emulating his efforts in the presence of his example, the apprentice unconsciously picks up the rules of the art, including those which are not explicitly known to the master himself. These hidden rules can be assimilated only by a person who surrenders himself to that extent uncritically to the imitation of another. A society which wants to preserve a fund of personal knowledee must submit to tradition. Indwelling The term Polanyi gave to the successful act of tacit knowing in which a person attends from a set of subsidiary particulars to a greater, comprehensive, focal meaning is indwelling. This is the only way to truly know the world. The Tacit Dimension, p. 18 We identified the two terms of tacit knowing, the proximal and the distal, and recognized the way we attend from the first to the second, thus achieving an integration of particulars to a coherent entity to which we are attending. Since we were not attending to the particulars in themselves, we could not identify them; but if we now regard the integration of particulars as an interiorization, it takes on a more positive character. It now becomes a means of making certain things function as the proximal terms of tacit knowing, so that instead of observing them in themselves, we may be aware of them in their bearing on the comprehensive entity which they constitute. It brings home to us that it is not by looking at things, but by dwelling in them, that we understand their joint meaning. Indwelling as the critical key in understanding Any higher principle can be known only by dwelling in the particulars governed by it. Any attempt to understand a higher level of existence by a scrutiny of its several particulars must fail. We shall remain blind in theory to all that truly matters in the world so long as we do not accept indwelling as a legitimate form of knowledge. Reductionism, Objectivism and the Principle of Marginal Control On Reductionism and the destruction of comprehensive meaning If the scientist attempts to separate nature into discrete blocks of information that can be collected, analyzed and graphed, he will never truly understand nature. By shifting his focal awareness to a set of particulars, he becomes like the pianist who has suddenly shifted his awareness from the melody to the motion of his fingers. True, meaningful, comprehensive knowledge suddenly disappears. He is left only with a type of knowledge that, while perhaps temporarily useful, lacks any deeper meaning... We can see now how an unbridled lucidity can destroy our understanding of complex matters. Scrutinize closely the particulars of a comprehensive entity and their meaning is effaced. Our own conception of the entity is destroyed. On the Objectivism of exact science as the destruction of knowledge The Tacit Dimension, p. 20 The declared aim of modern science is to establish a strictly detached, objective knowledge. Any falling short of this ideal is accepted only as a temporary imperfection, which we must aim at eliminating. But suppose that tacit thought forms an indispensable part of all knowledge. Then the ideal of eliminating all personal elements of knowledge would, in effect, aim at the destruction of all knowledge. The idea of exact science would turn out to be fundamentally misleading, and possibly, a source of devastating fallacies The principle of marginal control in the interrelation between lower and higher levels of meaning (From Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding by Kraft E. Von Maltzahn, p. 93) The principles operating at a higher level cannot be derived from those governing the lower level. The organizational principle of a higher level exercises control on the particulars forming the lower level; this principle Polanyi calls the principle of marginal control. A higher level can come into existence only through a process that does not exist at the lower level. The individual items of the lower level must therefore emerge into a coherent pattern which forms the next upper level. In moving to a higher level, however, the various possibilities for reaching above the boundaries of the previous level leave open the possibility of failure as well. Unless the higher level (for example, speaking in sentences) exercise a margin of control over the principles governing the lower level (in this case, vocabulary and the rudiments of grammar), the higher level will fail in its execution of that skill. The margin of control is the way in which the principles governing the lower levels are integrated in one particular combination for the successful achievement of the emergent principle. This means that in the example we are using, the speaker must choose the correct grammatical forms, such as the appropriate tense, and must also choose the right words so as not to suggest a wrong meaning. If these go astray, the sentences fail to perform their focus, which is to express a thought. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1605365941167-8FVD1P6Y2V9WGPD0NYUY/torrance1.jpg Subversion: Tacit Knowledge & Realist Epistemology - TFT & The Fundamentals of Realist Epistemology Born in 1913 to missionary parents in the China Inland Mission (more to come…) Resources & Works Theology of Light God’s Uncreated & Created Light Lectures & Sermons From 1953-1992 Including: The Grammar and Ground of Theology The Mediation of Christ Warfield Lectures on The Trinitarian Faith And more... List of works: 21 volume set • TFT Society: Participatio The Journal of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship Robert Walker Christ Has Faith for Us George Dragas T.F. Torrance a Theologian For Our Times: an Eastern Orthodox Assessment 7 General and Particular Epistemological Principles From his The School of Faith, 1959). Each of these principles are possibly the most outstanding guides not only for how we ought to approach not only our study of medicine and the sciences but, moreover, how we should frame our care of the human person. Read and reread. xxi. Basic Premise: The nature of the content must be allowed to condition not only the form but the method of instruction. On the other hand, because instruction has to take into account the nature of the receiver, the mode of communication will be conditioned also by the mode of reception. xxii. Incarnation as a divine form of communication: Behind everything lies the fact that the Word of God has become flesh, that the Son of God has become man, for it is this Word clothed with our humanity in the incarnate Son who is communicated to us. Communication takes place on the ground of a divine self-adaptation to our humanity which also lifts up our humanity into communion with God. Thus behind all Christian communication or instruction lies the supreme fact that when the Word became flesh, God accommodated or adapted His revelation to human form in Jesus Christ, so that the closer instruction keeps to the humanity of Jesus Christ, the more relevant it is to the humanity of the receiver. I. 7 General Epistemological Principles xxiv. Critique of Modern education theory: From the point of view of the Christian faith two primary elements have been neglected in this development (a) the personal nature of the Truth and (b) the radical nature of evil and the need for reconciliation with the Truth. Both of these demand a profounder conception of the “objectivity” of the Truth than modern educational theory has favored—where by “objectivity” is meant that Truth is something that encounters us and even when we know it retains its objectivity over against us, resists every attempt to subdue it to some form of our subjectivity, even when knowledge of it becomes inward and intensely personal. -> (i) Importance of Adapting our capacities in accordance with the nature of the object: All knowing involves an adaptation of our capacities in accordance with the nature of the object, and therefore instruction requires a specific adaptation on the part of the learner, a specific mode of rational activity determined by the nature of what is being taught or communicated…[the learner] has to make an effort to relate his reason differently to different kinds of objects—that indeed is the very essence of rationality…Thus the communication of Christian truth requires like all other truth serious adaptation towards it on the part of the receiver. (ii) Importance of adopting the right attitude Bound up with this is the question of attitude. One adopts a rather different attitude in biology from that required in archaeology. One does not adopt the same attitude toward a living thing as one does towards a piece of ancient pottery. In all scientific knowledge we must adopt a procedure of impartiality, that is, in the sense of objectivity. In other words, we do not allow our presuppositions to dictate to us a priori anything about the “what” or “how” of what we are investigating… Because we knowers cannot keep ourselves out of the picture altogether, we must develop a scientific attitude rooted in humility and wonder, that is, learn “how to be really open toward the disclosure of entirely new facts and meanings.” (iii) Importance of asking the right questions It is an important step in any branch of scientific research to learn to ask the right questions. Of course to ask questions presupposes that you already have some knowledge, otherwise you would not know what to ask about. Nor would you really ask questions if you already had full knowledge, for then your questions would not be genuine. But in the progress of learning, it is essential to ask questions appropriate to the nature of the object. If we ask only biological questions we can only expect biological answers, and if we ask only chemical questions we can only expect chemical answers. The really scientific questions are questions which the object that we are studying, through it very nature put to us, so that we in our turn put only those questions which will allow the object to declare itself to us or to yield to us its secrets. The more we know about a thing the more we know the kind of questions to ask which will serve its revealing and be the means of communicating knowledge of it. .. Application to Christianity Christianity does not set out to answer man’s questions. If it did it would only give him what he already desires to know and has secretly determined how he will know it. Christianity is above all the question the Truth puts to man at every point in his life, so that it teaches him to ask the right, the true questions about himself, and to form on his lips the questions which the Truth by its own nature puts to him to ask of the Truth itself that it may disclose or reveal itself to him. (iv) Importance of allowing the object to direct investigation You cannot think unless you have something to think about. It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to think about nothing. Unless the mind is given material to think about, it can only turn in upon itself and think about itself—and that is the mark of mental disease. No one more than a child needs to be fed with information, to be given food for thought, otherwise he cannot develop his mental powers or develop the modes of rational activity that are essential for his own independent learning... Education theories that insist that teachers must concentrate on drawing out (e + ducere) the latent capacities of the child, and help him at every point to form his own judgments, without equal attention to the supply of information, are tragically mistaken. That is to work with the old Orphic myth that all learning is a form of recollection, or to hold that all truth is ultimately self-evident, and at the same time to inculcate the false notion of the autocracy of reason. If modern science has taught us anything about reason, it has taught us that reason is nothing without its object, and that truly rational activity is inseparable from learning to behave in accordance with the nature of what is objectively given, for that is the only way to learning what we do not and cannot know… Without any doubt a method is more successful when it imparts to a person more that he can grasp at that time, for it so stretches his powers that it helps him to reach beyond his grasp and then grasp beyond his former reach (Platonic method, developed from the mathematicians, of “removing the hypothesis”). (v) Importance of uniting the realm of the image and the realm of the idea It belongs to the essence of good education to hold together the realm of the image and the realm of the idea. That is natural to the child who is at once both a born ‘realist” and a born “idealist”, as it were. It is one of the most tragic features of modern occidental civilization that the realm of the image is torn apart from the realm of the idea, and once that happens it is next to impossible to bring them together. Once this radical dichotomy becomes a part of life, people divide into two main groups, those who think mainly in images, usually the more uneducated and less sophisticated people, and those who tend to think only in ideas and abstractions, and for whom the whole realm of concrete image, and therefore of event, is of secondary importance, and for some even ultimately unreal. In that radical dichotomy a peculiarity of our age is the forceful conjunction of material images with scientific abstractions which so radically characterizes Marxist man, but a large part of the blame for that must rest with the idealist divorce of the realm of ideas from the realm of concrete events. Be that as it may, somehow modern education tends to perpetuate this rift between the image and the idea, and in doing so it creates a grave difficulty for Christian instruction, for Christianity is committed to the healing of the rift between image and idea, and its whole method of communication involves the interpretation of image and idea, the overlapping of the realm of events with the realm of ideas. That follows from the historical involvement of Christian Truth. which can only be known and communicated in a way corresponding to its nature as historical and spiritual Truth. This is of supreme importance for the instruction of the young, that from a very early age they should learn the Truth through both image and idea, and through image and idea in inseparable mutuality. Thus to teach only the stories of the Bible, that is only its dramatic images, to young children, and not to teach them the elements of doctrine, is to create in them the divorce of image from idea that proves so disastrous later on, when either they have to deny the world of imagery in order to think in ideas, or to repudiate the world of ideas in order to take seriously the concrete world of material images. Either way they are dwarfed and stunted in half of their natures. On the other hand, to teach them Christian doctrine from a very early age is both to preserve and cultivate wholeness in their life and to train their intellectual and spiritual capacities without damage to their natural life. (vi) Importance of developing appropriate conceptual tools You cannot make anything unless you have the tools with which to form and construct it. You cannot think unless you have tools with which to think and shape the thoughts in your mind and form your judgments. The tools that the mind requires are conceptions and categories and formulated ideas. Nor can you make much progress in instruction and learning unless you have appropriate and adequate tools for rational communication. That is surely part of the immense significance of the OT, that is, of the whole history of God’s dealings with Israel, for it was within Israel that there were shaped and formed the tools which were used in the NT to grasp and interpret the bewildering miracle of Jesus. Those tools needed recasting and reshaping in their actual use in the NT, but they did supply the basic material which the NT Revelation required for its communication. (Torrance’s Princeton lectures: words and structural images like the sacrificial Lamb of God, tabernacle procedures for the atonement of sin, the Passover etc.) (vii) Importance of creating a proper environment (community over individuality) You cannot make much progress thinking on your own in a vacuum. You cannot think unless you have something to think about. Nor can you think unless you have an environment, unless you have others with whom to think together. Likewise Christian instruction requires the community of others. It does not properly take place in isolation, but only in the midst of the Church, that is in the whole fellowship of life and mission and preaching and worship, for it is only in the essential integration of the Truth with being and action that it can be either received or communicated. The Truth has to be communicated to the learner in his setting in life where he has to adapt himself to the Truth in order to apprehend it, but strictly speaking that requires the adaptation of his setting in life to the Truth, for it is only in togetherness with his fellows that he can fully and adequately apprehend the Truth. Likewise the communication of it requires the community, for it is only in the manifold communication, that is in the Communion of Saints, that proper and adequate instruction can achieve its end. This belongs to the very nature of reason, as we are learning again today, for that reason cannot, without damage and loss, be abstracted from the person and from personal life and fellowship. It is this interaction of minds, this dialectic of persons, that is so obviously important for real advance even in scientific and philosophical pursuits, which is required in every form of instruction, and not least in Christian instruction, because there, as we shall see, this is demanded from the side of the object as well as from the side of the knower and learner. II. 7 Particular Epistemological Principles (i) Jesus Christ is Himself the Truth As Kierkegaard put it, this is Truth in the from of personal being, Truth which is identical with the Person of the Teacher. But we must go further than that. It is Christ clothed with His Gospel who is the Truth, for this is unique Truth in which Christ’s Person and His Message are an inseparable one. It is this double character of Christian Truth which distinguishes it from all other truth. It is a Person, but in that it is also a message, it is sharply distinguished from all personalisms. It is a message, but in that it is a Person, it is sharply distinguished from all systems of ideas or truths or propositions. Christian doctrine is a communication of truths, but truths that cohere in the one unique Person of the Incarnate Son of God. Christian doctrine is a personal communication of life and being. but not in abstraction from a Message. It is this unique and two-fold nature of the Truth which gives to Christian knowledge and Instruction their unique character… Christian instruction must be analogous to this two-fold nature of the Truth as Person and Message. That means that the message cannot be communicated except in personal relation to Christ the Truth, and that personal communion with Christ the Truth cannot take place apart from communication of this Message….In no other branch of knowledge is this the case, for nowhere else is truth the from of personal being and nowhere else do truths cohere in a Person. (ii) The Historical Fact of the Incarnation as the Basis and requirement for Knowledge of the Truth Kierkegaard has also reminded us that in the Incarnation the Absolute Fact has become a historical Fact, so that knowledge of it must be analogous to its historical nature. The Truth with which we are concerned is identical with the historical Jesus Christ. and therefore it is Truth that can be communicated only historically (that is not of course to deny that it must be communicated spiritually). The Truth is a historical Person, and must be communicated personally and historically. That is to say, the Truth must be communicated to us by other persons in time. It is not something that we can tell to ourselves, or to which we can relate ourselves timelessly. The truth comes to us and addresses us in history, using personal and temporal means, so that in order to learn the Truth we must allow others to tell it to us and to instruct us…. We have a striking illustration of this in the OT account of the child Samuel, to whom the Word of God came several times vertically from above, as it were, in the Temple at Shiloh, but who was unable to apprehend it or understand it except through the help of Eli. By himself Samuel could only interpret it as the voice of a man, and so could only misinterpret it. The Word of God required the agency of personal and historical communication, that is, to be conveyed horizontally, as it were, from one human person to another, before it was really received. Is that not the true communication of the Word since the Incarnation? Christian instruction requires as its medium a historical community of persons in fellowship with one another in Christ, if it is fully to achieve its end. (iii) The necessity of self-denial and self-criticism in response to the Truth; willing, personal conformation to the Truth as a scientific prerequisite for an understanding of it True Christian instruction requires on the part of the learner or receiver a response of self-denial and self-criticism. To a certain extent this must be understood as an adaptation of the general principle requiring communication and learning to ask the right questions. In scientific activity it is the nature of the object that teaches us the right questions to put to it through which it is made to disclose itself to us—but normally “disclose itself” is too personal a way of putting it. Here, however, where we are concerned with Truth in the from of Personal Being, and with Truth as our Creator and Lord, the Truth does disclose Himself to us, and actively puts questions to us. Here our scientific questions are directed not so much to the object, Christ Himself, but are by Him directed back upon us, for we discover we are at the bar, and are being questioned by Him. The appropriate response to that questioning is one of self-questioning and self-criticism, for what hinders our knowledge is not Christ who communicates Himself to us, but we who are the knowers, the subjects to whom He reveals Himself. And therefore when the Truth encounters us He comes with the demand for self-denial on our part—we cannot otherwise follow Him and be obedient to the Truth. In other words, when we encounter the Truth in Christ, we discover that we are at variance with the Truth, in a state of rebellion and enmity toward it, so that the way of knowledge is the way of surrender and acknowledgement through self-denial and repentance. We bring to the knowledge of the Truth our own preconceptions and our own desires and seek to mould the Truth to our own ways and to subdue it to our own satisfactions, but the Truth stands in our way and blocks us. He offends us, and there is only one way in which communication can take place, through yielding ourselves in repentant obedience to the Truth. Now this is in no sense a sacrificium intellectus—it is the only scientific and rational thing we can do, for if we are to know the Truth objectively, we cannot but adapt our rational activity to the mode of His encounter, and the mode of His self-revelation. To surrender ourselves in obedience to the Truth, to offer ourselves as living sacrifices to Him, is the part of rational worship. Since that is the only way in which Christian instruction can achieve its end, the communication of Truth cannot be divorced from the call of personal decision and obedience, involving repentance and self-denial on the part of the disciple if he is to follow Christ. Its reception requires on the part of the learner a decision against himself. (iv) Instruction in Christian Truth involves reconciliation with the Truth, primarily between man and God and secondarily, between man and his fellow-man The man is existentially severed from the Truth, as Kierkegaard once put it, and needs to be reconciled to the Truth. Revelation and reconciliation are inseparable, and communication and healing cannot be divorced from each other. Christian instruction has to reckon with the problem of evil, indeed with original sin. As John Craig pit it, it is not that in the Fall we lost our minds and will, but “we have lost a right mind and a right will”; or as he out it even more sharply, there are “two contrary images in mankind, the image of God and the image of the Serpent” and between them there is a “continual battle.” We are opposed to the Truth, and the Truth is opposed to our untruth. Therefore reconciliation and healing have to take place if real communication is to be achieved. This is a two-fold reconciliation, between man and God and between man and his fellow-man. Here we return to the fact that it is only within the community of God’s people that communication can take place, but now we see that this is the community of the reconciled where reconciliation between man and God and man and his fellow is actualized. It is in the community of reconciliation that the learner receives the required disposition toward the Truth, and himself enters into reconciliation with the Truth. (v) Christian instruction requires renewal on the part of the learner; conversion as total transformation of being and mind (complete metanoia) If Christian Truth is Truth in the form of Personal Being in Jesus Christ, then knowing the Truth must involve a relation in being to it as well as a relation in cognition. Thus corresponding to the oneness of Truth and Being in Christ there must be a oneness of knowing and becoming on the part of the believer. Knowing the Truth and being recreated in the Truth are inseparable. “Except a man be born again,” said Jesus to Nicodemus, “he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” In no other sphere of knowledge does knowledge of the truth affect so decisively the being of the knower, but here knowledge of the Truth involves a radical change in being or a conversion. In some respects this also can be looked on as Christian adaptation of the general scientific principle that rational knowledge of an object requires adaptation of behavior in accordance with its nature. Because in Christ Truth and Being are one, adaptation to such Truth on the part of the knower requires of him in the very act of knowing a radical reorientation in which knowing and being mutually involve one another. In the language used at an earlier point, this will involve a reconciliation between idea and image, of truth and action, and a renunciation of the radical dichotomy between a realm of ideas and a realm of events. Reconciliation with the Truth must be allowed to penetrate throughout the whole life and being of the believer, so that reconciliation becomes an internal truth of his own being and mind. It is only out of the wholeness of person and being that true knowing of the Truth can be actualized. (vi) Christian instruction can only achieves its end through the demonstration of the Spirit Jesus took care at the Last Supper to tell His disciples that He would send them “the Spirit of Truth,” not in order to speak of Himself or teach them new things, but in order to reveal to them what Christ had already set before them in His Word, and Life, and Action. Jesus Himself is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one can go to the Father but by Him, but we require the supernatural operation of the Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son in order to apprehend the Truth and to become sons of the Truth in apprehending it. In other words, Christian Truth is transcendent to us. It is other and higher than we are. It is beyond us, and we are unable to attain to it of ourselves. We need to be lifted up above ourselves, and enabled to grasp it beyond our natural capacities. For a man of earth to conceive the Truth is as miraculous an act as the Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ. We receive the Truth as it is announced to us, but it is only by the supernatural operation of the Spirit that we can really conceive it. Certainly it passes through all the rational processes of our minds and knowledge of it is in no sense irrational, but the mind is adapted to the Truth by the Truth and only through that conformity to it can the human mind rise to know what is beyond it and is actually divine. In other words, the Truth acts creatively upon the knower who yields himself to the Truth, enlarges his powers and begets in him an understanding not otherwise attainable… All Christian instruction must reckon with this fact…and therefore we must never seek to do ourselves the work of the Spirit, as for example, by sheer force of indoctrination, to mould the mind of the learner by undue pressure. We may sow and plant and water, but it is God alone who gives the increase. (vii) Christian instruction has to reckon with the fact that the Truth may put the learner at variance with the world The very fact that knowledge of the Truth requires reconciliation with the Truth, and renewal in the mind and life of the learner, means that he is singled out from the world, incorporated into a community of the reconciled and renewed and so belongs to the Communion of Saints over against the natural societies of the world. He does not come out of the natural societies for he has his natural life in them, but it does mean that his new life in the Truth creates a certain tension between him and the world. On the other hand, it must be remembered that the Truth into which communion he has now entered is essentially reconciling Truth. Therefore he cannot have communion with it without entering into its reconciling operation, without being sent back to the world on a mission of reconciliation. Unless he really engages in that mission it is to be doubted whether he has really entered into communion with the Truth. Thus the Truth is really communicated to us when we can communicate it to others. Reception of the Truth reaches its fulfillment when from learning it passes in faithful discipleship to witness. This is all-important for the fulfillment of catechitical instruction. The teacher must never really cease to be a learner. for his teaching is the fulfillment of his learning, while the learner does not really learn unless he learns also from his learning how to teach the Truth to others. Epistemological illustrations and excerpts from his short work, Preaching Christ Today, which is comprised of 2 lectures given at the Jubilee of the Scottish Church Theology Society & Princeton Theological Seminary I. “Preaching Christ Today”: Address to the members of the Scottish Church Theology Society, Edinburgh 1992 Two Examples from Social Anthropology When you begin to tear these elements in the Holy Scriptures apart, the kerygmatic from the didactic, the historical from the theological, everything goes wrong… I was particularly intrigued once in coming across a similar problem in the researches of the social anthropologists, Evans-Pritchard on the Azande culture in Africa, and Clyde Kluckhohn on the culture of the Navaho Indians in the southwestern states of America. Let me refer only to the latter. He spent a long time with the Navaho Indians, studying their institutions and patterns of behavior at first hand in direct, carefully and meticulously controlled observation of their way of life, but after many years he realized that he had not really understood them. He had made a point of being as scientifically accurate and objective as possible in results. The trouble was that he had been interpreting and integrating what he observed with a conceptual frame of thought alien to the Navahos. Then when he set himself to study the institutions and behavior of the Navahos again through living with them and absorbing their way of thinking and describing and integrating their own way of life, he found that what he now wrote up about them not only made sense to the Navahos but made scientific sense as well, for this way of conceptualizing what he observed from the inside, as it were, made his observations and judgments accurate and objective in a way that they had not been before (3). Critique of the Post-Enlightenment “Scientific” method: Failure of the phenomenalist and constructivist conception of science; lessons form Kluckhold The kind of scientific method that became dominant after the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century concentrated first upon the isolation and observation of phenomena, and then set about establishing natural laws through logical deduction from the empricald date reached in that way, but that meant, even as Kant admitted, reading laws into nature, not reading them out of nature. This is known as the phenomenalist and constructivist conception of science. Scientific theories were reached through observing and analyzing of phenomena and then imposing them in the necessitarian framework of absolute mathematical time and space, in order to give the phenomenalist particulars some kind of rational coherence. This is the kind of scientific method which produced the hard determinist conception of the universe that has done so much damage to all areas of human thought. Think what happens when that kind of scientific method governs research into the culture of the Navaho Indians. First of all you isolate and determine the empirical data and try to describe them in strictly empirical or observationalist terms. When you have done that, you interpret them, not through a conceptuality inherent in them, but through a conceptual frame of thought derived elsewhere e.g. from a mechanist theory of evolution. As we have noted, that is the kind of scientific method which Clyde Kluckholn found to be disastrously wrong. And that is precisely the false scientific method that has now been comprehensively destroyed in physics, the most rigorous of all sciences, in the rejection of a dualism between empirical and conceptual factors, or between phenomena and theory. Proper scientific method seeks to penetrate into the intrinsic rationality of any field of reality, grasping it in depth, as Einstein argued, in order to understand it in accordance with its distinctive nature, and to find appropriate ways of formulating knowledge of what is learned in this way. That is actually how scientific method normally operates today (7-8). The shattering of the dualistic approach of Newtonian mechanics and Builtmann’s Historie by Einsteinian relativity & quantum theory The Newtonian distinction between two kinds of time, along with the mathematical formalization of the laws of motion, was highly abstract and artificial and left no room for “real time,” or therefore for salvation history. That is why, of course, Bultmann held that Historie understood in this natural causalist way ruled out any thought of incarnation or miracles or resurrection, or of God’s interaction with us in history. His acceptance of the idea of an unbroken continuity of cause and effect governed by natural law made him regard the central Christian beliefs embedded in the Gospels and Epistles of the NT as a mythological account of reported this-worldly events in other-worldly ways lacking objective truth and reality. They were no more than subjective forms of thought devised by the early church in order to make existential sense of the way Jesus was reported to have appeared to his followers. Hence Bultmann devised a “program of demythologizing” and reinterpreting the NT existentially in which modern people can make sense of the NT in terms of their own self-understanding in the scientific world of classical Newtonian mechanics. The Newtonian conception of absolute mathematical time and space clamped down upon the universe, along with its rational dualism between empirical events and theoretical constructions, gave rise to a rigidly mechanistic account of nature which James Clerk Maxwell found could not explain the behavior of light. A new scientific approach to the created universe and a very different understanding of nature in terms of continuous dynamic fields had to be developed. This reconstruction of the foundations of science, which Albert Einstein held to be the most important in history, led him to develop his theories of special and general relativity. They shattered the determinist conceptions of classical mechanics and led to quantum theory, and a much more refined and dynamic and open-ended understanding of reality…. Einstein overthrew the dualist disjunction between empirical events and scientific theory or between physical facts and mathematics. He showed that if scientists are to be true to the nature of the space-time universe, they must not try to interpret it by crushing their understanding of it into a preconceived static frame of ideas formulated altogether apart from the physical structures of nature, as the Newtonians had done with the timeless necessary system of Euclidean geometry. Everything finally goes wrong when that is done. Rather must geometry be put into the heart of physics where it is transformed through being embedded in the dynamic world of space-time and becomes four-dimensional. This means that geometric patterns and physical structures in our space-time universe are bound inseparably together; conceptual and empirical factors inhere in one another, both in nature and in our understanding of it, and must not be torn apart. That is why our twentieth-century science has made such enormous advance, for it no longer imposes abstract necessary patterns of thought upon nature, but seeks to understand nature out of its own inherent rational order, and is therefore concerned with continuous dynamic fields and with real time. There we have the immense revolution in the foundation of knowledge brought about through general relativity theory, followed up by quantum theory, which has now been built into rigorous modern science. This involves a way of thinking in which experiment and theory, empirical and theoretical factors interact with one another and must not be divorced from one another, and therefore a way of thinking in which the historical and the historical and conceptual ingredients must be taken together in the understanding of any historical culture or religion (5-6). Dangers of separating the realm of the image and the realm of the idea (further clarification of general epistemological principle v) When you tear the visual and mental images apart, or sever the connection between the perceptual and conceptual ingredients in knowledge, then some sort of extraneous matter has to be introduced in order to make the dismembered results stick together (10). Danger of separating Jesus from the Oneness of God The history of thought has shown us that it is only when Jesus is known and worshipped as God become man that his humanity has been preserved; when Jesus is detached from oneness with God, what is called “Jesus” is no more than an empty symbol into which people project their own religious fantasies and ideas (16). The Incarnation as the basis for a right understanding of miracles: the miracle of the “wailing infant” and its implications for God’s this-worldly interaction What bowls me over every time I read about Jesus in the Gospels is not the wonderful things he did, not the so-called nature miracles in which the wind and sea obeyed him, or even his making the dead alive again, for if Jesus really is God, as John Polkinghorne the Cambridge mathematical physicist has said, one would expect that, for he was the Creator personally present in the midst of his creation. If you really believe that Jesus is God become incarnate you will have no trouble with the miracles. No! What overwhelms me is the sheer humanness of Jesus, Jesus as the baby at Bethlehem, Jesus sitting tired and thirsty at the well outside Samaria, Jesus exhausted by the crowds. Jesus recuperating his strength through sleep at the back of a ship on the sea of Galilee, Jesus hungry for figs on the way up to Jerusalem, Jesus weeping at the grave of Lazarus, Jesus thirsting for water on the Cross—for that precisely is God with us and one of us, God as the “wailing infant” in Bethlehem, as Hilary wrote, God sharing our weakness and exhaustion, God sharing our hunger, thirst, tears, pain, and death. Far from overwhelming us, God with us and one of us does the very opposite, for in sharing with us all that we are in our littleness and weakness he does not override our humanity but completes, perfects, and establishes it. Meaning of the Cross; not an explanation of evil but a triumph over evil This is what I believe to be the significance of the cross of Christ—in him we believe that God himself has come into the midst of our human agony and our abominable wickedness and violence in order to take all our guilt and its just judgments on himself. That is for us the meaning of our cross. If I did not believe in the cross, I could not believe in God. The cross means that, while there is no explanation of evil, God himself has come into the midst of it in order to take it upon himself, to triumph over it and deliver us from it (29). II. “Incarnation and Atonement in the Light of Modern Scientific Rejection of Dualism”: Address to the Theological Students’ Forum, Princeton Theological Seminary, April 9, 1992 The Nature of Scientific Inquiry; Kataphysic inquiry Here I have learned as much from the great fathers of the church, people like Athanasius or Cyril of Alexandria, as I have from modern theologians like Karl Barth or modern scientists like James Clerk Maxwell, Albert Einstein, or Michael Polanyi, or from philosophers like John Macmurray. You can express it basically in this way. In any rigorous scientific inquiry you pursue your research in any field in such a way that you seek to let the nature of the field or the nature of the object, as it progressively becomes disclosed through interrogation, control how you know it, how you formulate your knowledge of it, and how you verify that knowledge . I often speak of this as ketaphysic inquiry, a term that comes from the Greek expression κατα φυσιν, which means “according to nature.” If you think of something in accordance with its nature like that, you think of it in accordance with what it really is—so that here thinking κατα φυσιν is to think κατ’ αληθειαν. Hence in this context the terms φυσισ and αληθεια. naure and reality, are really equivalent. Application to science Since the universe has been given a reality of its own which, while contingent upon God, is utterly different from him, it cannot be know through a priori reasoning but may be known only out of itself, as it discloses its own nature to us in answer to experimental or physical interrogation (45). 4 Illustrations of how Kataphysic inquiry operates (i) The Tree: Suppose we inquire into the nature of a tree and bring all our rational faculties to bear upon it. In doing so we develop a modality of the reason that is appropriate to the specific nature of the tree and do not treat the tree as we would a rock or a human being, for that would be to thing of it contrary to its nature, παρα φυσιν, as the Greeks would say. A tree is alive but not personally alive, and so we adapt our mode of knowing and reasoning in accordance with its nature as a tree. (ii) The Cow: Suppose then we switch our inquiry to a cow, which is a living thing like a tree but is an animal, which unlike a tree is a moving being. Here there takes place another switch in the modality of our reason, in which it is adapted to the specific nature of the cow as an animal. Our scientific method is the same, knowing something as rigorously as possible in accordance with its nature. (iii) The Human Being: But when we turn our inquiry toward a human being, the modality of our reason changes yet again in accordance with the nature of the human being. Here a radical change is involved because unlike a cow a human being can talk back to us and reveal something of himself or herself to us. Moreover, a human being is a rational agent with a depth of intelligibility that a cow does not have, and a human being is personal in nature, which calls for a two-way relation, a personal interaction, between the knower and the one known. We cannot get to know another human being if we stand aloof and say, now just you keep dumb, and let me try and understand you. We cannot really know another human being except in a two-way interaction with him or her. We have to open our heart and mind to him or her and listen to what he or she has to say about himself or herself. It is only in and through personal interaction that we get to know another human being. In fact, we probably really know others only as we reveal ourselves to them, rather than merely by trying to find out what they are in themselves by way of impersonal observation. (iv) God—Authentic Theology as Epistemological Inversion Then let us switch the modality of our reason to God. Now here we have an even more radical change, because God is the Creator and Lord and we are creatures, who, while personal, are utterly different from him in the nature of our being. Hence with God we have to do with a kind of relation which is quite different from that which we have with other creatures. With trees or animals we have to do with objective realities over which we can exercise some control in varying degrees as we subject them to our inquiries, but when we turn attention to other human beings we are not in a position to exercise control over them. A human being is personally other than we are and is more profoundly objective than a tree or a cow, for he or she would object to our attempts to control them. Here, then, we have to do with a measure of objectivity that we do not have with other creatures. But when we turn our attention to God we have to do with a relation of the profoundest objectivity which we can never master. He is the Lord God before whom our human knowing undergoes a radical change, which I sometimes speak of as an epistemological inversion of our ordinary knowing relation. We can know God only through his self-revelation and grace, and thus only in the mode of worship, prayer, and adoration in which we respond personally, humbly, and obediently to his divine initiative in making himself known to us as our Creator and Lord. Here the modality of our reason undergoes radical adaptation in accordance with the compelling claims of God’s transcendent nature—that is precisely what authentic theology involves. The necessity of personal change on the part of the knower (a response to, rather than a projection onto) This is very important because it calls for a real change in the whole structure of our soul and mind in our approach to God, and as often as not it is a painful change in which the self-centered structure of our minds is turned inside out and transformed. Apart form such a μετανοια or deep-seated change in mind and heart, you cannot really be a theological student, far less a minister of the gospel. No wonder our Lord Jesus told his followers that they must renounce themselves and take up their cross daily if they were to be his disciples. Does that not in its way also describe the kind of repentant thinking of all unwarranted presuppositions and the objective commitment to the truth which characterize rigorous scientific inquiry? (46-49) Greco-Roman Dualism as the product of Plato’s doctrine of Eternal Forms; the invisible realm as the changeless eternal basis for all visible reality The radical dualism that affected all classical culture, that is Greco-Roman culture, drew a sharp line of demarcation or separation, a χωρισμοσ, between the intelligible realm and the sensible realm, that is, a realm of eternal ideas and a realm of empirical events, or a realm of reality and a realm of appearance. Consequently, for the Greeks anything that took place in the empirical or phenomenal realm was regarded as lacking in reality, as evanescent appearance, and even as evil. The only realm to which scientific attentions could be directed was the intelligible realm of eternal and necessary forms that are not affected by the decay and unreality of this passing works. Within an outlook of that kind, governed by a radical disjunction between reality and appearance, the eternal and the temporal, the heavenly and earthly, the intelligible and sensible, the teaching of the Bible, particularly of the NT about God becoming incarnate and acting in the sensible material world, could only be regarded by the Greeks as a crude mythological way of thinking. Thus the message of the gospel, interpreted within the dualist framework of thought prevailing in the culture of the Mediterranean world, was regarded as a mythological way of thinking in which irrational facts and events from this passing world of appearance are wrongly projected into the real world of eternal forms and timeless truth (50). Overview of 3 basic approaches to the relation between the divine and earthly realms Let me indicate briefly and diagrammatically the kind of problems that arise here. Picture in your mind the three ways in which two hemispheres may be related to one another: (1) as adjacent to one another but with a clear gap between them (dualism as represented by Kant, who gave a metaphysical from to that already built into modern classical science by Galileo and Newton); (2) as touching one another tangentially; and (3) as intersecting one another or overlapping with one another. (1) and (2) presuppose a dualist framework of thought, whereas (3) rejects dualism in favor of interactionism (51). Arianism as a poduct of a proposed tangential relation between the phenomenal and noumenal realms (2) describes a disjunction between the divine and human, the heavenly and earthly, but one in which the two realms are held to relate to one another merely tangentially without any way intersecting one another. That is to say, they touch one another at a mathematical point, but since such a mathematical point is dimensionless, there can be myriads of them. That is precisely how the Arians conceived of the way in which the realm of God and the realm of this world touch one another tangentially at the point called “Christ.” Since that is a dimensionless mathematical point, Arius claimed that there must be “myriads” of such “Christs” or images of God. “Christ” is then ultimately no more than a creaturely, transient, this-worldly symbol of the divine without the objective divine content. (3) Thinking rooted in a conception of reality which recognizes the intersection of the noumenal with the phenomenal, the divine with the earthly, and therefore seeks to understand the reality of God in terms of His objective self-revaltion rather than our existential self-understanding: κατα διανοιαν vs κατ’ επινοιαν, How do we within this phenomenal or empirical world know God in Christ if in Him we have no more than a tangential relation to the divine? How can we know God through Christ if Christ is not also on the divine side of that boundary between man and God, and if in Christ human inquiry is unable to cross over the boundary and really terminate upon God beyond? If we in this creaturely world try to make sense of Christ when the human and the divine only bear upon one another tangentially, our attempts to think of God inevitably bend back upon ourselves, so that we interpret Christ and God through Christ our of our preconceptions and in terms of our own self-understanding. That is precisely how Athanasius regarded the mythological thinking of the Arians, contrasting it with proper and accurate thinking of God on the ground of his objective self-revelation to us in Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God. If you try to think accurately of God, he argued, you have to think κατα διανοιαν, across or away from yourselves toward God, but the mythologizing Arians thought of God κατ’ επινοιαν, out of themselves, for in the end all they can say about God is of their own devising, excogitated out of their own self-understanding. Summary: Those who operate with a sharp distinction between the other world and this world, interpret the teaching of Scripture not in terms of God’s objective self0revelation, but mythologically in terms of humankind’s existential self-understaning (52). The Doctrine of the Hypostatic Union: indissoluble union of the divine and human natures in the incarnate person of Christ This Hypostatic union means that in Jesus Christ, God and man, divine and human nature, are indissolubly united in one incarnate person, so that the whole of Christ’s life from beginning to end was a life lived in unbroken relation with God the Father. In that event the saving work of Christ and his incarnate life are inseparable. Redemption begins with the very advent of Jesus, so that his conception and birth of the Virgin Mary are to be regarded as essential constituents in his saving activity, and his humanity is seen to be not just a means to an end. Atoning reconciliation is to be understood as taking place within the incarnate constitution of the Mediator. His person and his work are one. That is why the NT can say that Jesus Christ is redemption, he is righteousness, he is life eternal. He Himself in his incarnate person is our salvation (58). The Hypostatic Union as necessitating a dynamic, rather than a static, view of God and his relations to man If God and man are indissolubly united in the one person of Jesus Christ, that must be understood with reference back to an ultimate ground in the very nature of God. If what God is toward us and for us in the incarnation and atonement he is eternally in himself, if the activity of God in the economic Trinity is identical with the activity of God in the immanent Trinity, then the being of God must be understood not in a static but in a dynamic way. This was the point which Athanasius drove home in his stress upon (together with ), the activity inherent in the very being of God. That is admittedly a totally un-Greek conception, which could not but import a decisive change in the foundation of thought. Consider the significance of this in light of our modern scientific rejection of dualism; it implies a fundamental way of thinking which is at once dynamical and ontological, which is what modern science has been struggling to achieve in its attempts to harmonize relativity theory (65). The Atonement as the redemptive recapitulation of all Time If we believe that in Jesus Christ, the Creator Word by whom all things were made and in whom all things hold together, became man then we cannot but think with St. Paul of the incarnate and atoning action of God in Christ as penetrating back in time to the very beginning, gathering it up in himself, and thrusting forward in time to the very end in the consummation of his creative and redemptive purpose. We have to de here with real time (to borrow an expression from Henri Bergson), not with the Platonic notion of time as a moving image of eternity. This realist understanding of the incarnation as the redemptive recapitulation of all time since the creation and as the teleological fulfullment of time was a favorite conception of Irenaeus in the second century, and through him it was injected into the classical theology of the early church. 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The Passage into Hypermodernity - The Word With the prior section offering resources on the written word with a focus on the Patristic foundations, this section focuses on the spoken word, the form of communication which has been referred to as the new printing press (‘4:00), which is to say, entire archives open to literally all of us in a matter of moments. Though digital media, rather than locking us in a sequence of present moments, as discussed above, it grounds us in the Foundations of True Reality. The resources below present figures whose life and ministry aimed at taking their people through the entirety of the Word. They are not flashy in their presentation of it. Rather, they are consistent, faithful and full of insight and Truth—that which our present moment desperately needs. James Philip Minister of Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1957-1997, whose sermon archive his son, William Philip (a former cardiologist turned pastor and now at St. Georges’ Tron in Glasgow) made available online. These Exegetical Sermons over that 40 year period take us through nearly every book in the OT & NT. In addition, his Notes on Scripture were also made available, which cover the entirety of both Testaments. William Still Also a minister in Scotland in the region of Aberdeen at Gilcomston South Church, where he pastored for 52 years from 1945–97. During his ministry, he revitalized Scotland through his exegetical preaching combined with an emphasis on congregational prayer, His sermon archive can be found here. It should be noted that Rev. Still was a colleague of Rev. Philip and exerted a massive influence on Eric Alexander, Sinclair Ferguson and Douglas F. Kelly (all of whom are featured below). Martyn Lloyd-Jones If James Philip’s 40 year exegetical ministry helped root Scotland in the Word, Dr. Lloyd-Jones did so in England and beyond. It should be noted that Lloyd-Jones began his career as a physician in training (1921-1927) under Sir Thomas Horder (the decades-long physician to the Royal Family, who reached the level of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order). After a two-year long struggle with a calling into Ministry, he ultimately returned to his native country of Wales, taking a call at Aberavon. After ten years of faithful ministry he was called to Westminster Chapel in London, where he continued for close to 30 years (1939-1968). This sermon archive offers hundreds of sermons from that era on The OT, The Gospels with The Kingdom of God, through to Acts, Romans and later Ephesians with fascinating series on Preaching and Preachers as well as Spiritual Depression (both of which were turned into books). Eric Alexander Referred to as the “greatest pastor in the English-speaking world”, who ministered for 20 years (1977-1997) at St. Georges’ Tron, Rev. Alexander’s OT & NT Exegetical Sermons have recently been archived online. For those of you are not aware, his mentee that succeeded him at the Tron was none other than Sinclair Ferguson whose style and clarity follow that of Rev. Alexander. Stuart Olyott Also from the UK, Rev. Olyott pastored in Liverpool from 1967 - 1999 with intervening periods in French-speaking Switzerland, where he planted numerous reformed churches still active and spreading. His Sermon Archive presents one of the clearest expositions of Scripture of any figure in his era. Douglas F. Kelly Though from the U.S., Dr. Kelly’s paths crossed with all of the above figures during his PhD studies at the University of Edinburgh (where he studied under Thomas F. Torrance from 1969-72), sat under the ministry of James Philip, preached alongside Stuart Olyott and was mentored by William Still. Moving into a small pastorate in SC, he was later called as the Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Serminary where he remained from 1983-2016. A distinctively clear exegetical style is in evidence in both his sermons and seminary lectures, which can be found on the DFK Archives. Brewer Ames Below is a series on Amos, which offers much needed insight into a little understood book of the Minor Prophets …Yet You Did Not Return (Amos 3:1-4:13) Seek the Lord in His Day (Amos 5:1-27) The Lord’s Lonely, Grieving, Faithful Prophet (Amos 6:1-7:17) Destruction…or Restoration? (Amos 8:1-9:15) Further Resources: Monergism Online theological library with audio and visual offerings of every chapter of Scripture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606392010100-JECT1E9TFPKUG7RMODMI/HS%2C+Russian.jpg Transformation: II. The Passage into Hypermodernity - The Holy Spirit As the Word must be combined with the Spirit so as to operationalize the coming of the the Eternal Kingdom into the Present Fallen Age, we present introductory quotations om the Work of the Holy Spirit followed by a series of OT & NT excerpts to be read over a 50 day period. “During Christ's earthly mission, man's relationship with the Holy Spirit was effected only through and in Christ. On the contrary, after Pentecost, it is the relationship with Christ that is effected only through and in the Holy Spirit.” “It is therefore the Holy Spirit alone who can effect this union, for it is the Holy Spirit alone who can so join things in heaven and things on earth that heavenly things can be grasped by human minds and that the life and virtue of what is in heaven can be shared by those who are yet on earth. It is the Holy Spirit alone who can bring into real being that wonderful relation of mystery between Christ’s heavenly body and his church on earth which is so clearly depicted in the act of participation in the Lord’s Supper and Baptism... Faith is thus an entirely supernatural gift – a new capacity created within man whereby what is in heaven is really possessed and enjoyed by him. It effects such a secret and wonderful communion with Christ that even though Jesus Christ remains entire in heaven he is nevertheless grasped so firmly and possessed so completely that he may be said actually to dwell in our hearts. Faith has the power to reach through the humanity of Jesus even to God himself….faith is able to rise from the flesh of Christ to his divinity, and is able to penetrate above all the heavens, even to those mysteries which the angels behold and adore.” “Through the Incarnation, life of obedience, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension of the Son of God as man, the foundation of our salvation has been laid in the fulfillment of our nature, which Christ assumed. But, strictly speaking, our salvation is achieved only through Christ, who comes to dwell within us with the body He bore—a body that has risen, ascended, and been made fully spiritual, that is, has been filled with the Holy Spirit and thus has become perfectly transparent. Yet Christ does save us, inasmuch as He dwells in us through the Holy Spirit. In this way the power for our salvation and deification shines forth within us from Christ's spiritualized body. The descent of the Holy Spirit is what gives the Church a real existence; it initiates the indwelling of Christ's deified body in human beings and thereby initiates the Church as well. The descent of the Holy Spirit is thus the act of transition from Christ's saving work in His personal humanity to the extension of this work within other human beings. Through the Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection, and Ascension, Christ lays the foundation of the Church in His body, and through these events, the Church's being exists in its potential form. However, the Son of God became man not for Himself but so that He could extend salvation from His body, as divine life within us. This divine life, extended from His body into those who believe, is the Church. This life shines forth from His body, which was raised up to the full state of pneumatization (spiritualization) through His Ascension and sitting at the right hand of the Father, within the deepest intimacy of infinite life and love that God directs toward human beings... Through the Holy Spirit Christ Himself penetrates into human hearts, because His body was made spiritual in an incomparable way through the Spirit, who overwhelmed and utterly penetrated Christ's body. “ [Note: The above three quotations were by a 17th c. European Protestant figure, a 20th c. Romanian Orthodox theologian who survived the Gulags under Stalin then a Russian Orthodox emigre to France involved in the neo-Patristic renewal. 50 Days of Readings on the Holy Spirit As the Word must be personally applied by the Spirit so as to operationalize the coming of the Eternal Kingdom of God in this present Fallen Age, we present here a series of OT into NT readings that follow that particular Scriptural genre. Come what may, these are intended to equal 2 chapter in each Testament (the average length of each chapter being 20 verses) and to be read over a 50 day period. Links to the Readings: Pentateuch-> Gospel of Matthew II. Histories-> Gospel of Luke III. Prophets-> Gospel of Mark IV. Wisdom-> Gospel of John https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606392182315-YCZPDB52PDDSODYXYO19/Jesus.jpg Transformation: II. The Passage into Hypermodernity - The Body of Christ The Word must be continually applied by the Spirit to usher the Eternal Kingdom of God into this Fallen Age, generation by generation. And the epicenter of this New Creational Energy (ἐνεργής) is the Church—The Body of Christ. The Spirit works Metanoia within us as Christ’s body so that we can first “see the Kingdom of God” (Jn 3:3), which up until that point has been overlooked—as a tiny seed planted; leaven hidden deep within; treasure buried and out of view; a precious pearl yet to be found (Mt 13:1-46). When we then“live by the Spirit (εἰ ζῶμεν πνεύματι) and by the Spirit operate” (πνεύματι καὶ στοιχῶμεν, Gal 5:25), then the seed grows up, the leaven begins to transform, the treasure is uncovered and the pearl found. And when we are truly “instructed in the Kingdom” (μαθητευθεὶς τῇ βασιλείᾳ), that we can then“bring forth out of the treasure things new and old” (Mt 13:52). Below are such offerings with a focus on the development of the Church over the centuries Thomas Hopko (1939-2015) Initially Professor of Dogmatic Theology (succeeding Serge Verkhovskoy) and later Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, he was the son-in-law of Alexander Schmemann and exerted a great effect of renewal within the Orthodox Church in America. 8-part series on the Nicene Creed 57-part series of podcasts entitled, Bishops, follows the development of the Orthodox understanding of the ministry of the Church from first century to our current era. This 84-part series, Worship in Spirit and Truth, offers reflections on the Divine Liturgy of the Orthodox Church. Assorted lectures and conference addresses The Lord’s Prayer: This talk is a syntheses of his prior, 12-part series tracing the Church’s understanding of the Lord’s Prayer through the centuries: The Word of the Cross: An early OCA conference offering possibly the clearest presentation of Orthodox Christology and its application to every day life: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Series of lectures and conference addresses on the place of poverty and acts of mercy within the Christian life: The Magnificat - What it means to be poor Christ & the Poor Loving God With All Your Strength - Performing deeds of mercy Remembering the Poor - Wealth and Anxiety The Abolition of Man 55 Maxims Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983) Russian emigre to Paris following the Russian Revolution, Schmemann later became a professor of Church History at St. Sergius Institute in Paris. He was invited by Father George Florofsky to serve on the faculty of St. Vladimir’s seminary, where he became professor of Church History as well as Liturgical Theology and later dean from 1962 until his death in 1983. (During that time the seminary was often referred to as St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Schmemannary:). It should be noted also that he was the private priest to Alexander Solzhenitsyn when he immigrated to the U.S. following his exile from Russia. Church History Liturgical Theology John Meyendorff (1926-1992) Also a professor of Church History at the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, Meyendorff later joined the faculty of St. Vladimir’s, acting as the Dean from 1984-1992 directly following Schmemann. Patristics 201 Patristics 367 Douglas F. Kelly Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary whose lectures are also featured above under ‘The Word”: Patristic Theology Medieval Theology The Holy Trinity: An elective formulated during the composition of the first volume of his Systematic Theology, presented here for the first time here: Christology: The course upon which was later based the second volume of his Systematic Theology John Currid Also Professor Emeritus at Reformed Theological Seminary in OT and Biblical studies with an adjunct faculty position at the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies in Jerusalem, he is a trained archaeologist, who served as Project Director of the Bethsaida Excavations Project among others, Dr. Currid wrote a series of commentaries on all five books of the Pentateuch, well worth reading. His course on Judges Through the Prophets is currently available, which we highly, highly recommend. And we hope to soon feature for the first time an absolutely indispensable set of lectures, entitled “Introduction to Old Testament Theology,” that trace every major Biblical theme from their seeds in Genesis 1-11. G. K. Beale Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology at Westminster Theological Seminary, these exceedingly important lectures examine the major theological concepts of the New Testament as they are presented and developed in the Old Testamental storyline. New Testament Biblical Theology As an example of this theological approach, here is a sermon series on Revelation that came out of his 1309 page momumental commentary See also his work with D. A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament Father David S. Abernethy Trained psychoanalyst turned Catholic priest, Father Aberne joined the Pittsburgh Oratory of St. Philip Neri, where he began a reading group, entitled the Ancient Christian Writers Series that is now the Philokalia podcast. He takes the listner line by line through notable works in the Philokalic tradition, the links to which are below: Philokalia: The Ladder of Divine Ascent (featured earlier on the site under the Patristic Foundations) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1606437267085-55TEXRB0A1AALVYKIQB8/Vine1.jpg Transformation: II. The Passage into Hypermodernity - Formation in Medicine I. The Kingdom of God and Redemptive Community (κοινωνία) 4-part series by Ron and Carolyn Klaus Ron was a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania before moving into full-time ministry, planting genuinely interracial churches in inner-city Philadelphia with his teachings on the Kingdom of God being integrally related to his wife, Carolyn Klaus’ founding of Esperanza Health Center at the height of the AIDS epidemic (which story is presented in her fascinating and insightful book, Prescription for Hope). Theses lectures provide an introductory framework to the Scriptural teachings on the Kingdom of God and their outworking within vital Christian communities. The Klauses have a wealth of experiential understanding with over 4 decades spent founding such communities both nationally and globally with a current focus on Ethiopia. (And for those of you that are aware, they had a major influence on Bill Pearson in his founding of the Longwood Christian Community at Harvard). Session 1. Carolyn Klaus: Community and the Founding of Esparanza Health Center Session 1: Q&A Session 2. Ron Klaus: Community and the Kingdom of God, part I Session 3. Ron Klaus: Community and the Kingdom of God, part II Session 4, Ron Klaus: Community and the Kingdom of God, part III II. Spiritual Formation Boston Healthcare Fellowship Gospel Anthropology: Human Flourishing According To Jesus III. Christ-centered Healthcare Christian Community Healthcare Fellowship John Perkins Born in New Hebron, MS in 1930 to a family of sharecroppers with his brother being murdered by a police officer after returning from WWII, Dr. Perkins moved to Southern California where he was subsequently drafted to Okinawa during the Korean War. After his conversion, he moved back to Mississippi to the town neighboring New Hebron and established Voice of Calvary Bible Institute with his wife running a daycare center out of their home. Initially involved in anti-segregation movements that led to his arrest and torture in the Brandon jail, Dr. Perkins emerged with a new vision that he encapsulated in the three Rs" — Relocation, Redistribution and Reconciliation. These principles led to the subsequent formation of the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) and Christian Community Health Fellowship (of which numerous resources are offered below) CCHF Plenary Address, 2010: What is a Christian? Part 1 Part 2 Susan Post CCHF Plenary Address, 2011: I want to know Christ Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Rick Donlon Dr. Donlon developed a network of CCHF clinics in inner-city Memphis at the completion of his training in Medicine-Pediatrics, later co-founding Resurrection Health Services with a goal of training physicians for incarnational ministry in the inner-city and overseas. He is a major figure in the renewal of CCHF and an incredibly engaging and motivating proponent of healthcare for the poor. CCHF Plenary Address, 2012: The Trenches CCHF Plenary Address, 2014: Dying Deeper To Swim Farther: The Paradox of Comfort-busting Incarnational Ministry Janelle Goetcheus Founder of Christ House, a respite care facility for homeless men and women then co-founder of Health Care for the Homeless Project (HCHP) in 1985 which later became Unity Health Care, the largest network of community health centers in Washington, D.C. 2014 Plenary Address, 2014: Interview (Go to 7:00) IV. Global Missions Health Conference David Thompson Longtime missionary surgeon in Gabon and founder of the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons, serving as its director from 1996-2006 GMHC Keynote Address: The Doctor Must Die John Patrick Initially an academic researcher on Protein Energy Malnutrition, serving as an Associate Professor in Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Biochemistry and Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa for 20 years before transitioning to President and Professor of the History of Science, Medicine and Faith at Augustine College Extensive Audio Library that provide an excellent synthesis of the state of modern medicine in light of its Christian historical and philosophical foundations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e2c91679fdf240fb1ab3e81/1607451432637-N35RAYTMSHYFM2C8INBG/Jesus+and+the+Rich+Young+Ruler.jpg Transformation: II. The Passage into Hypermodernity - Medicine, The Clinician and Money Insights from the Church Fathers Basil (330-379) Sermon to the Rich On Social Justice: Four recently translated homilies on texts such as Mt 19.16-22, “To the Rich”, [The translation of which is available above] and Lk 12.16-21, “I Will Tear Down My Barns”, which were likely written in 368 during the greatest famine in the history of Caesarea. The work of Basil, who was a priest in the diocese of Caesarea in that time, formed the basis for what would subsequently become the foundations of the modern hospital system, with the complex of care that he developed later taking on the name of the “Basiliad.” Gregory of Nyssa (335-395) Homily on the Love of the Poor John Chrysostom (347-407) On Wealth and Poverty: Six homilies on the Parable of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31, ) Insight from the Medieval Era Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) Summa Theologica Part I–II, Q66 Of Theft and Robbery (Nine Articles) Article. 1 - Whether it is natural for man to possess external things? Article. 2 - Whether it is lawful for a man to possess a thing as his own? See this discussion here for a proposed synthesis of the above writings, with a particular focus on the latter.