The Day of Pentecost
The Day of Pentecost
Almighty God, who on this day didst open the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of thy Holy Spirit: Shed abroad this gift throughout the world by the preaching of the Gospel, that it may reach to the ends of the earth; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
In these final Sunday theology classes, Father Austin returns to the beginning of the Bible. He will be looking particularly at questions of rule and animals, and our relations one to another. For instance, it seems that ‚Äúrule‚Äù over one another is not part of God’s initial design, and yet rule (and with it, political life) seems inevitable. Rule over the animals, also, comes to be as a consequence of the fall. God responds to this by training a people, starting with Abraham, to follow a New Way. One characteristic of the New Way is that generosity will be easy and natural; this is to be institutionalized in the Jubilee Year.
There is no more important theological question than what it means to be human. When he came to Saint Thomas in 2005, Father Austin identified “theological anthropology” as the focus of the classes he would organize here. He wishes now to end with a return to this important chapter of biblical anthropology: who we humans are.
Please access the theology calendar for exact dates and times for all theology classes at Saint Thomas.
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