Month: January 2015

Aquinas: The Biblical Approach of the Model Catholic Theologian

Today is the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas! In honor of that, I thought I’d cover some ground I’ve been over before, namely, Thomas’ role as a model of Catholic theology and his primary focus on Scripture. Perhaps most striking—at least to some—is Thomas’ insistence on the priority of the literal-historical sense of Scripture. …

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Joy without Borders

The apologist C.S. Lewis imagined an unredeemed world as a place where it was always winter, but never Christmas. This winter I find myself in a different place from Lewis’s imagining. It’s always Christmas, it seems — and that is as it should be. My book about Christmas, Joy to the World, appeared shortly before Advent …

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