From its very beginning thirteen billion years ago, the raw material of the world was already permeated and filled with God’s subtle but powerful presence. There never was a time or space in the history of evolution when God was absent from this planet. In the person of Christ this tremendous love-story has been finally revealed. A new consciousness has enfolded the world. The human is now the home of the divine. The redemption has […]
Within the horizons of the theology of nature and grace, there is a basic theology of sacrament without which we will always struggle to fully understand and teach the Christian faith. Once we make that central ground of revealed truth our own, then we will have immense confidence and consistency in the way we approach our teaching and catechising. What follows is an effort to explore the central Christian notion of sacrament, beginning with Christ, […]
St Paul’s prayer for us to ‘put on Christ’, to have ‘the mind of Christ’, is substantially answered when we learn to see things sacramentally. To look at anything in the light of Incarnation is to notice the ‘surplus of meaning’, the ‘excess of significance’ in what is going on around us. The work of evangelising is like bringing colour into what was only black and white before. It is about completing what was already […]