Category: Theology
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Our Trenches, Our Civil War
Deal W. Hudson January 13, 2018 There are no bayonet attacks or cannons firing away into the night, but there are trenches. Take one small town I recently visited in Maryland. “We don’t get invited to any dinner parties, or anything, anymore,” my hostess told me. The street itself is only four short blocks long…
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The Catholic King Who Supported the Muslim Invasion of Europe
Deal W. Hudson February 5, 2018 That Catholic king was Francis I who in the 16th century openly sided with Suleiman the Magnificent in his Muslim wars on Christians in Eastern Europe. The reason was simple, as explained by historian John Julius Norwich in Four Princes: Henry VIII, Francis 1, Charles V, and Suleiman the Magnificent…
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Holy Land Religious Leaders claim, “POLITICAL PERSECUTION LEADS TO THE CLOSURE OF CHRISTIANITY’S HOLIEST SITE”
Deal W. Hudson February 27, 2018 The following is a press release and statement from THEOPHILOS III, Patriarch of Jerusalem; FRANCESCO PATTON, Custos of the Holy Land; NOURHAN MANOUGIAN, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem regarding their decision to close the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to protest Israel’s taxation of Church property. Readers should be aware that…
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The Simple Reason Why We Should Hope Hell Exists
Deal W. Hudson March 31, 2018 You’ve heard that Pope Francis may not believe in the existence of Hell, but all Catholics should hope he is wrong. Why? The simple reason is this: Take away Hell, and you have taken away human freedom, dignity, and the imago Dei (Genesis 1.27). It’s relatively simple, also, to understand why…
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A Baptist Minister Becomes Catholic
This is my appearance on “The Journey Home,” an EWTN program hosted by Marcus Grodi, a marvelous fellow, by the way. The description of my appearance on the network website was as follows: As a child, Deal attended a Presbyterian Church at his mother’s promptings. In high school, after being witnessed to by a Southern…
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How Catholic Universities Fool Their Donors
By Deal W. Hudson During my eight years at Crisis, the conversation that most often reoccurs is the one about the fate of the Catholic university and college. It begins inevitably with an alumnus complaining about the latest anti-Catholic outbreak on the hallowed grounds of their former college campus and ends with their asking me…
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The Day a Red Bird Sang St. Thomas Aquinas
I was coming to the end of my first year as a college professor at Mercer University Atlanta. I was still a Southern Baptist though I had been wrestling with that affiliation since being introduced to St. Augustine at Princeton Theological Seminary. One of the greatest Protestant theologians, Soren Kierkegaard, had provided the base motif…
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On Beauty – A Message to Its Religious Despisers
Deal W. Hudson What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean in The Idiot when one of his characters asserts, “Beauty will save the world”? Taken at face value, it’s a claim that beauty plays a role in the salvation of us all. There are quite a few Christians, of all denominations, who would respond to that claim…
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Why God Became Man
Deal W. Hudson It began with a simple fact: When God created man and woman He did not give them the mind of an angel. If humans were angels, God could have delivered His Word directly into their minds by illumination. Though created in His image and likeness, men and women derive all that they…
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