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9/01/2025
8:55 am GMT+0800
Slightly More Theological

From Mountain to Mountain: The Tremendous Significance of Jesus’ True Humanity for Salvation

9/01/2025

This is my contribution in P. De Mey, K. Struys, V. Coman (eds), Answerable for our Beliefs, ISBN 978-90-429-4742-9 and is here posted after the expiry of a three-year embargo on contributors'...

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8/01/2025
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From Our Perspective

348. The Decisive Impact of Christ’s Death and Resurrection on Paul’s Conversion

8/01/2025

The Resurrection of Christ 3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures 4 and that he was buried...

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7/01/2025
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347. What “Conversion” Meant for St. Paul

7/01/2025

7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  8 Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have...

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6/01/2025
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346. The symbolic significance of St Paul struck down, blind and fasting

6/01/2025

The Conversion of Saul 9 Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus,...

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5/01/2025
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345. The Chinese Last Supper by Chen Yuandu (陳緣督)

5/01/2025

The Institution of the Lord’s Supper 23 For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, 24 and when he...

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4/20/2025
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344. From Mountain to Mountain: Implications of the Resurrection

4/20/2025

 “3 For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures 4 and that he was buried and that he was...

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4/19/2025
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343. Holy Saturday – a Reflection by Karl Rahner, S.J.

4/19/2025

The Burial of Jesus 50 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph who, though a member of the council, 51 had not agreed to their plan and action. He came from the Jewish town of...

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4/18/2025
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342. Good Friday – a Reflection by Karl Rahner, S.J.

4/18/2025

Isaiah, 53 1 Who could believe what we have heard, and to whom has the power of Yahweh been revealed? 2 Like a sapling he grew up in front of us, like a root in arid ground. Without beauty,...

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4/01/2025
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341. Xinjiang! Xinjiang! The Joy of Xinjiang!

4/01/2025

1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid. 2 The good obtain favor from the Lord, but those who devise evil he condemns. 3 No one finds security by...

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3/01/2025
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340. The Law of the Gift (2) Jesus and the Poor Widow at the Temple

3/01/2025

38 As , he said, ‘Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and to be greeted with respect in the market-places, 39 and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of...

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