Question: What do the anagogical sense and a committed relationship / marriage have in common? Let’s explore the answer… In our modern way world, we have almost universal literacy; the lowest poverty rate in history; immediate access to a colossally powerful, ever expanding network of information (A.K.A. the Internet); sweeping technological advances in just about…
Month: March 2021
Understanding the Bible: The Moral Sense
When thinking about the four senses of interpreting Scripture, If the term “moral sense” immediately conjures up thoughts of being puritanically righteous; or if it makes you think, “Uh oh, I better be good!”, or “This is the part where I’ll probably get my hand slapped!” – then welcome to the world of being…human! After…
Understanding the Bible: The Allegorical Sense
If you have ever had a conversation with your friends, family, or colleagues about reading the Bible, you may have heard at least one person in your life say, “The Bible isn’t meant to be taken literally”, or “The Bible is just a lot of allegory and parables.” Or some of your more scholarly acquaintances…
Understanding the Bible: The Literal Sense
From the Catechism (109) of the Catholic Church: “In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their word.” Keep the above quote in mind…
Recommended Reading: “Making Senses Out of Scripture” by Mark P. Shea
Each time I have an idea for a blog, I ask myself the following questions: Who is the audience? Is it a topic, in this age of information saturation, that has already been so thoroughly vetted, I am just proverbially reinventing the wheel? Will the topic make sense and be a helpful resource? Or will…
Recommended Reading: “Counterfeit Christs” by Trent Horn
It has been about 20 years now since Eminem first informed the world he is the “Real Slim Shady”, that “all other Slim Shadys are just imitating”, and that he was (or still is?) waiting on the answer to this question “Won’t the Real Slim Shady please stand up?” And while the song is a…
Recommended Reading: “A Father Who Keep His Promises” by Scott Hahn
As most people familiar with Scott Hahn know, Hahn has been a bastion of Catholic apologetics and teaching since his conversion to Catholicism in the mid 1980’s. Coincidentally, I just recently happened to listen (again) to his conversion story on Matt Radd’s YouTube channel, Pints with Aquinas. I also recently happened to watch a tour…