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Nov 2019
Last Sunday I began the transition from a consideration of the Lord’s Day to a consideration of the social teaching of the Church. My intention will not be to focus so much on actual Church teaching as to reflect on the subject from the perspective of the Lord’s Day. Nevertheless, before I set off in that direction, I want review the teaching of Pope Leo XIII’ s foundational social encyclical “Rerum Novarum” (1891). As I mentioned last week, during the course of the 20th century the expression of the Church’s social teaching......
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November 08, 2019
From the Lord’s Day to Social Teaching
Last Sunday I brought my considerations of the Lord’s Day to a conclusion by noting that Sunday observance is not just a religious issue, but a social justice issue, indeed the key issue for true...
November 01, 2019
The Demise of the Lord’s Day
Last week I wrote that we will learn better to keep the Lord’s day if we think of it more as a day dedicated to God’s work, to doing his will, rather than to our...
October 25, 2019
Remember to Keep Holy the Lord’s Day
Remember to keep holy the sabbath day. Six days you may labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God. No work may be done …...
October 18, 2019
From the Sabbath to the Lord’s Day
The last two Sundays I have been writing about the meaning of God’s rest on the seventh day and the sanctification of the seventh day. All this leads now to a question: God commanded, Remember...
October 11, 2019
The Seventh Day and the Sacrifice of Praise
Last Sunday I began writing about the meaning of God’s rest on the seventh day. I concluded with these words, “True rest is not the mere absence of motion or change, but even more involves...
October 04, 2019
The Seventh Day: God’s rest and our rest in God
Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed. Since on the seventh day God was finished with the work he had been doing, he rested on the seventh day from all...
September 27, 2019
The seventh day and the ideology of six days
God completed his work of creation after six days, but the story does not stop there. If we understand the account of creation rightly the six days will point us to the seventh day, and...
September 20, 2019
Created in the Image of God
The high point of the first six days, we could say, is the creation of man, male and female, in the image of God, but the special status of man has been under an intense...
August 30, 2019
Genesis and Environmentalism: The Special Status of Man under Attack
The first main thing to consider in the Genesis narrative of creation is the simple fact of creation and the meaning of the distinction of things and their goodness. I have written about that during...