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AI as Christian Heresy

L.M. Sacasas, Comment

Kevin Kelly's 84 contemporary heresies, from trivial to genuinely dangerous

Most heresies are defined by theology. Technologist Kevin Kelly's are defined by peer pressure. His criterion: "something you believe that the people you most admire and respect do...

Secularism as Protestant Heresy

Introduction: It is an old error, and an old trick, to blame the straight road for the behavior of those who veered off it. This is like blaming a math class for those who flunked...

Sunday Sermonette: The most important dispute in all of history

Well, maybe not quite, but arguably. John 14 might be the most historically important chapter in the Gospels because in centuries hence, dispute over the proper interpretation of t...

How To ‘Deconstruct’ And Rebuild Your Christianity Without Losing It

Far from demanding blind faith, the world-altering events at the heart of Christianity actually invite our investigation and lifelong reflection.

Three ‘Distortions’ of Doctrinal Warfare — And the Hildebrand Question

Yesterday we explored how doctrinal warfare functions by narrowing populations into controlled binaries. Here is an outline for convenience’s sake: Doctrinal warfare (as we’ve writ...

Why modern rejection of God goes back to ancient church heresy: The Robertsons break it down

There was a time when God revealed himself in astonishing, tangible ways.In the Old Testament, he led the Israelites through the wilderness by appearing as a pillar of cloud and fi...

just as holy

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If John Scully was still around, he would have posted this

Porridge: which is everyone who isn’t a Muslim. Nonono, ahl al kitāb remember. True enmity is reserved for the būtparast etc. Which translation of the Qur’an did you read? It’s...

Wokeness is Christian Heresy

by Nigel Biggar, The Biggar Picture The Cult of the Victim ‘Progressive’ or ‘woke’ politics is undoubtedly religious. But not in a good way. In championing transgender, ethnic mino...

Should We Burn Hegel?

Cyril O'Regan on derangements.

Almost a Blasphemy

Kevin Gallagher, Commonweal Few topics in recent years have attracted more attention—or more investment capital—than "artificial intelligence." And since the beginning of Leo...

On Hildebrand: Nicholas II, Paul IV, and a Legally Legitimate Question

In last week’s Thursday piece, we explored the “Three Distortions” surrounding the Hildebrand question: the conflation of Hildebrand with the proposed imperfect council being propo...

Saturday Lagniappe: The Challenge of Eastern Orthodoxy

The Challenge of Eastern Orthodoxy: Comparing Evangelical and Eastern Orthodox Theology The Eastern Orthodox Church has held an allure among Evangelical Protestant Christians for s...

Against "God Alone"

Ephraim Radner, First Things A few years ago, I had some routine surgery. Something went wrong in recovery. The nurses on the floor couldn't fix it. They couldn't find the special...

The Almost-Greatness of Donald Trump and Leo XIV

by Dan Hitchens, First Things Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages, I have been repeatedly struck by the truism that moments of institutional...

Tried and found wanting: How Leo XIV chose heresy over the Church

By endorsing Francis's 2018 Catechism revision on capital punishment, Leo XIV has chosen a competing rule of faith over that proposed by the ordinary and universal Catholic Magiste...

Sunday Sermonette: Bad historian

As I have discussed before, The Acts of the Apostles (usually just called Acts) is the second half of the document that begins with the Gospel of Luke. The early church authorities...

REPOST ASK FATHER: How to make a “Trinitini” Martini for Trinity Sunday and avoid committing heresy?

Here’s an oldie but goodie. QUAESITUM EST: We are planning to have a special drink for the potluck to commemorate the Feast of the Trinity. We were planning to do a “Trinitini”, a...

Los herejes (figuras de la inmanencia)

“La vida del espíritu no es la que se asusta ante la muertesino la que sabe afrontarla y mantenerse en ella”. G.W.F. Hegel La modernidad no nació a la luz de la serenidad, sino a l...

We Have to Do It Ourselves

Matthew Walther, The Lamp Simply put: Magnifica humanitas is not compelling. Who its target audience was I cannot possibly imagine (though I think I can just about hear the sighs...

How did we get HERE?

The divinization of Trump is precisely why the Church Fathers wrote the creeds

Once any embattled leader can be cast as savior, any comeback as resurrection, any survival as divine election, Christianity's central claim — that Christ is the unique mediator —...

Announcing The Heretics by Joe Abercrombie

Read an excerpt from the sequel to Abercrombie's The Devils The post Announcing <i>The Heretics</i> by Joe Abercrombie appeared first on Reactor.