Thomas Ramey Watson

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Why Do Christians Need to Believe in the Incarnation?

“The point of incarnation language,” the Catholic theologian Roger Haight writes, “is that Jesus is one of us, that what occurred in Jesus is the destiny of human existence itself: et homo factus est. Jesus is a statement, God’s statement, about humanity as such.” Humanity is the presence of God. The presence of God, therefore, …

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From: The Liberal Arts and the Fate of American Democracy By Scott Samuelson

Twentieth-century America gave birth to a world-class public educational system that, for all its flaws, gave an astonishing number of people a distinctive liberal education. Unfortunately, for a few decades now we’ve been walking with misplaced confidence toward inequality and empire once again. But we should refuse to “sit down fatalistically before the croaker’s picture.” …

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