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Who needs Scripture?
I wrote this piece for another publication a little over a year ago. Since I’ve been struggling for some time now with carving out time to read the Bible regularly, I read it as an exercise in d… more →
Torn Notebook
Who needs Scripture?
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Wei Hsien wrote 4 months ago: I wrote this piece for another publication a little over a year ago. Since I’ve been strugglin … more →
"The love which frees men from their loneliness": Some thoughts
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Wei Hsien wrote 9 months ago: In his autobiography, Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977, then-Cardinal Ratzinger identified Henri de Lub … more →
Ratzinger on truth and martyrdom
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Wei Hsien wrote 9 months ago: It will always be hard for man to speak the truth and to abide by the truth. That is why he takes re … more →
"Joy is a sign of grace"
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Wei Hsien wrote 10 months ago: Where joylessness reigns, where humor dies, the Spirit of Jesus Christ is assuredly absent. But the … more →
An Indian Orthodox perspective on the General Synod of Catholic Bishops
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: I know this is a bit stale since the General Synod of Catholic Bishops on the Bible in the life of t … more →
"Not as the guarantor, but as the adversary of salvation"
Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: I’ve posted this excerpt before, but since it is Reformation Day, I was thinking about it agai … more →
A Place for the Fathers (Final Part)
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: The Unique and Irrevocable Role of the Fathers In the last post, we saw Cardinal Ratzinger reject th … more →
A Place for the Fathers (Part IV)
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: Who are the “Fathers of the Church”? In the last installment in this series, I wrote about Ratzinger … more →
"Accept us, Holy Father, as we are"
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: . . . [C]ommunion with Rome does not separate us from our Orthodox ecclesial reality. We say this wi … more →
A Place for the Fathers (Part III)
Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: The Ecumenical Significance of the Fathers Thus far, Cardinal Ratzinger has argued that significance … more →
A Place for the Fathers (Part I)
Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: In this and subsequent posts in the series, I will refer to Pope Benedict XVI as “Joseph Cardi … more →
Church Unity and Legitimate Variance, Part III: Truth and Our Will to Unity
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: Do Christians today actually want to be united? As I thought about the material in the last few post … more →
A Few Recent Discoveries
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Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: I’ve added the first two blogs to my blogroll, but wanted to call them to your attention still … more →
Benedict XVI Remembers His Teachers (II)
Wei Hsien wrote 1 year ago: In contrast to the striking figure of Maier’s figure, the professor for Old Testament, Friedri … more →
