Nikolas Greene
Names, Voices, and Faces: The Logic of Persons
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known....
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Practical Theology
“A theologian is one who prays, and one who prays is a theologian” -Evagrius
Theology is not meant to be an academic exercise or intellectual pursuit about a mere abstraction; it is meant to draw us closer to the God who is Love and who desires intimacy with his creatures—an intimacy beyond our wildest imagination and the one for which our restless hearts long
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Ever since I was young I have been utterly fascinated and obsessed with life’s big questions. I firmly believe that Catholicism is true and offers the best and most coherent worldview. Some of my intellectual heroes include Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, Boethius, Anselm, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Scotus, Benedict XVI, and many others. My primary areas of interest include Christology, Trinitarian Theology, Ecclesiology, Liturgical Theology, and Soteriology. Above is Caravaggio’s famous painting “The Call of Saint Matthew”. It depicts Matthew’s pivotal choice to follow or not follow Christ. At Christ’s call, some tax collectors next to Matthew are too focused on their wealth to even notice the call. Matthew notices the call and makes a choice. Very often we are like the tax collectors and too focused on the hustle of everyday life that we fail to sit back and recognize the heights to which we are called. My prayer is that the readers of this blog might take a minute to contemplate eternal mysteries and in some way come to a greater love and knowledge of God.
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Nikolas Greene
A Truly Living Tradition
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. In a recent post about Magisterial fundamentalism, I offered a...
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The Primacy of Love
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have...
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Blessed Are the Childlike
Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Philosophy, Aristotle...
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Grace and Freedom
Gratia non tollit naturam, sed perficit — Grace does not destroy nature, but perfects it. Grace perfects the totality of human...
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Ghost Town
The following short story is meant to illustrate the absurd dilemma that comes about by denying the interconnectedness of persons (Totus...
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Hell and Language about God
This will be a shorter article, but I believe this topic deserves a few comments. In response to the argument for universalism from...
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Magisterial Fundamentalism and the Broadening of the Catholic Theological Imagination
“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the...
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Restoration and Judgement
“Then the end will come, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father after he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power.” — 1...
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My Song Is Love Unknown: Universalism, Conversion, and Individuality
"If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given...
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All Shall Be Well: The Doctrine of Apokatastasis
Is the notion of hell as unending torture compatible with an all-loving God? Might hell have an end? Might the love of Christ be more...
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Perichoresis: The Eternal Dance
The doctrine of the Trinity is the central doctrine of Christianity, even more so than any Christologcal doctrine, for the former is...
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Exitus and Reditus: Creation as Journey
One of the descriptions of man quite popular among the medieval scholastic theologians is Homo Viator--Man the Traveler. Its popularity...
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Philosophical Methodology, Providence, and Suffering
The great American phenomenologist Robert Sokolowski describes the method of philosophy (and theology) as the intellectual activity that...
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The Centrality of the Heart
The Heart has been largely unanalyzed throughout the history of western philosophy. Aristotle regarded the heart as something we share...
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Sports and Man’s Liturgical Nature
"It is the Cathedral of college football and worship happens here." rings the sound system of Tiger Stadium for every LSU home football...
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The Myth of Sisyphus and the Existential Consequences of Atheism
The new atheism of today takes on a snarky and even anti-theistic attitude. It is not one that is concerned with rational argument or...
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What Is Beauty?
Beauty, we are told, is in the eye of the beholder. Do we have reason to believe this? Do people who repeat this phrase actually believe...
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Theosis: Gregory of Nyssa’s Eucharistic Theology
According to Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council's dogmatic constitution on the Church, the Eucharist is "...the fount and apex of...
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The Argument From Desire
Numerous arguments for God's existence have been given throughout the centuries. In the future, I plan to explore these arguments and...
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