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The Efficacy of Prayer: The Universal Principle that Prayer is answered
The Father could never answer a prayer in any way that is not beneficial to the petitioner
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Conjugal Love: Affective Emotion or Act of the Will
Love begins when the will accepts all these sentiments, inclinations or movements, and makes them its own.
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What it means to have faith in the Church
When we say that we believe in the Church, we are making the Church an object of supernatural and divine faith. When we believe in something by divine faith, this means we accept it as true on the Word of God himself who has revealed it to us.
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The Lord of Providence is the Master of Coincidence
What I am praying for may be quite an unusual pattern. One way of expressing it might be to say I am praying for a coincidence. The Lord of Providence is the master of coincidence
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Down to Earth Spirituality: Walking Humbly Upon the Earth.
To walk humbly upon the earth: this is an attitude which lies at the heart of an authentic human spirituality; that which connects us to the truth of our being and helps us appreciate the beauty of creation.
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Love: The First Act of the Will
Love is the original and most authentic content of the will, what gives meaning to all the creations of the will. Love, by its very nature, is not only the first thing the will produces when it acts, it is also the principle, the inexhaustible creative source of any concrete decision.
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Charity and Love
Scripture contains commands to love God above all things and to love one’s neighbour as oneself. It would seem therefore as if charity were a human act, yet, charity has traditionally been called a virtue.
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Advent Message With Prophet Isaiah
Advent is not about our “getting ready” to let God come to us – this season is not about saving ourselves, but recognizing that God is already with us and in us.
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Jesus' Filial Relationship With the Father
Jesus reveals his divine identity by affirming he is the Son. He unveils his divinity only in a filial relationship with the Father, and all his words and actions manifest a filial attitude.
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The Identity of the Son of God in Relationship With the Father
The revelation made by Jesus in the Gospel posed questions for the disciples, essential questions that continue to confront the men and women of today when they approach the Gospel narratives.
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The Certainty and Uncertainty of Faith
The testing-point of the virtue of faith is, namely, hanging on to the truth once received in spite of all temptations.
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Communion With the Father, Our Supreme Goal, in the Perspective of Saint John
In this Gospel the grandeur of the manifestation of the coming of the Word-made-flesh is considered the objective revelation of God. In John's Letter it is seen as the introduction of God into our human life
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The Freedom of Faith
Man can be forced to do many things, and quite a few can be done against his will. Nevertheless he can believe only if he wants.
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The Meaning of Faith
Without previous knowledge there is no faith, and nobody can believe God if he does not understand something. Man could not assent by faith to any proposition if he would not know it somehow.
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Humility: The Fundamental Form of Temperance
If this virtue were too weak or too narrow to bear the tension of magnanimity, it would not be genuine and true humility.
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Faith: Is It Good for Man to Believe?
So, the person who believes, as far as he accepts God's message as true, receives also a participation in the divine life, manifested by that revelation. There is no other form of participation in divine life.
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Peace Be With You: Literary Context and Analysis of Luke Chapter 24: 36-49
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Fortitude: The Rational Strength Of The Just Man
Fortitude presupposes vulnerability. Without it, there is no possibility of courage. An angel cannot be brave because he is not vulnerable. To be courageous actually means to be able to suffer injury
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Apostolic Missionary Import Of The Post Resurrection Appearances
They experienced him as the glorified one, he instructed them from the scriptures and he commissions them as his witnesses to proclaim the message of salvation after he must have ascended to the Father and sent the promise of the Father (Holy Spirit)
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Biblical Foundation for the Resurrection Narratives
From the biblical foundation of the post-resurrection narratives, we can establish a firm belief in the resurrection of Jesus, bearing in mind that the resurrection narratives occupy a central place in the expression of the Easter faith, that is, the Christian faith.
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The Personal Identity of Jesus as the Son of the Father According to the Gospels
The eternal generation has therefore been the act by which the Father communicated the totality of his own life to the Person he brought forth as his Son. The activity of thought is included in this life, and by virtue of this the Son possesses the identity of a Word.
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Self-Mastery: The Recovering of Temperance
We need temperance if we are to pursue and attain any great or worthy end: if we are neither to be distracted from the end by the pursuit of short-term enjoyments, nor to damage our bodily or mental health by excessive abstinence.
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God the Father: The Model That Finds Expression in the Son Jesus
Jesus emphasizes that the Father, in showing him what he is doing, wants to remain for him the model that finds expression in all his Son's actions.
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Election and Predestination
So the Father's plan to be a universal father was at the same time an intentional choice to be the individual father of each and every human being..The choice must be understood in a positive way.
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Chastity and Unchastity
In an unchaste heart, the angle of vision is fixed upon a certain track. Moreover, the window of the soul loses its transparency, covered by the dust of his selfish interest. Unchastity is intent upon the prize, the reward of illicit lust.
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Yoruba Traditional Religion
Religion is innate, instinctive and habitual in Africa. In Africa, we are religious by nature but nurtured by culture. Africans are religiously oriented in everything they do
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Prudence: The Knowledge of Reality and the Realization of the Good
Modern man cannot conceive a good act which might not be imprudent, nor a bad act which might not be prudent.
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Prudence: Cognition and Decision
Prudence lives behind in the heart like a layer of wisdom, the instinct of rightly guessing what is good and right. This is because it affects the whole of human activity and orders its actions to the good.
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Background to the Study of the Gospel of Luke
Luke's writings make up about one quarter of the New Testament. Establishing a firm background study to the Gospel allows for proper understanding of the author and his interest.
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Contemporary Christian Life Experiences Vis a Vis the True Notion of Christian Life and Living
The believer emits the aura of true life of service and love as lived by Jesus Christ in his or her community. It is the daily living that help brand the individual as a true follower of Christ, one who has died with Christ and now lives anew in Christ.
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Salvation: Fruit of Rebirth in Christ
Salvation refers to the proclamation of Jesus as the saviour and redeemer of the world. It refers to healing, a bringing back to wholeness. It is to savage a thing, to restore it to a new state as different from the old. Salvation for Christians is achieved in Christ.
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Background Study of the Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians
The background study of this letter gives more understanding about the letter and the person of Paul and help in approaching the thoughts and theology contained in it.
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Contemporary Human Attitude Towards Sexuality
Sex is an unruly power that must be contained. Sex is a vital sign of a healthy and enjoyable life that must be maintained. These two contrasts mark the struggle of the contemporary human attitude towards sexuality today.
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From Relationship to Marriage: Growth and Proper Disposition
As much as the young people may feel urged to express their affection for each other in a more sensitive manner... a too early solid bond has an adverse effect on the maturity of the young person, and its later dissolution may have tragic consequences.
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Oduduwa and Ela: Central Figures in Adimula
It has been said severally that religions practised by Africans do not have founders or central figures. This is not true, Yoruba Traditional Religion known as Adimúlà has central figures such as Oduduwa and Elà
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Ifa Corpus and Divination
Ifa is the store-house of Yoruba religion and culture. Ifá corpus for a religiously and culturally oriented Yoruba, is a repertoire for life as well as a guiding principle.
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Presumption and Despair
Both of these sins arise from the infertile ground of an isolated ego. Though they appear to be very different, they both have their origins in the sin of pride.
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African Culture and Religion: Distinct Not Separable
Like brain in human body, or central processing unit (CPU) in computer, or engine in a car or seed in a fruit, so is religion in culture.
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New Life In Christ: A study of 2Corinthians 5:17
God has brought about ‘new things’ in the baptised exceeding what we could achieve; a new heart, a new ability to love God and others, and a new capacity to participate in the actualization of God’s kingdom on earth inaugurated by Jesus’ ministry.
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Morality: The Ethics of Virtue
By a rediscovery of morality and a return to ethics, I mean to accept a universe where man is free. A world where man is not conditioned by his genetic make-up, his inner instincts or his social institutions. A world, where men are responsible.
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Theological Hope: A Summit Surpassing Man's Natural Plenitude
Hope cannot be explained as a just a virtue, because hope is a theological virtue or not a virtue at all
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I Am What I Am Not. I Am Not What I Am
It is this same nothingness that makes man the kind of being that he is, namely, a being without support, a being impossible to identify with anything in a fixed or permanent way, a being that is not what he is and is what he is not.
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Where Is He Who Have Been Born King of the Jews?
It was a question filled with bewilderment, rapped with amazement and intended to fill in the gap that the “blinded” Jews could not notice. It was that which begs the sensitivity of the Jews, question their upmost sheer ignorance and tries to contain the feeling of wanting the wise men felt.
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Unearthing Your True Self. Stop Imitating, Start Creating
The man who has toothache feels everyone who does not have toothache is happy; but it isn’t true.
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For God So Loved The World. Light and Darkness, Mutually Exclusive States
He didn’t give this incredible gift of His son to judge and condemn our sin and chaos, but to love and restore. It’s actually a pretty simple plan; we believe in him and are acquitted or not believe and remain condemned (mutually exclusive states).
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One Step at a Time: The Interview
Surprisingly, it wasn’t going to be so. It was going to be a head to head contest. With whom if I may ask? With the brain behind it all. Whaooo!
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The Cleansing of the Temple
No more scripty behaviour; no more performing just for the sake of doing something. Let’s end the shallowness and reach deep into the core.
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Genuine Human Love: Key to Relationships
Expression of passionate love cannot be underestimated in relationships. But first, is the pure human love that makes us reach out to one another in love and friendship; that which makes us act as loving individuals and on which all other forms of love are made firm.
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Parental Mental health and child well-being. African Fatherhood
The African culture sanctions the father’s authority over the family and its resources, but fails to specify his child care role
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Fixing a Temporary Abode for a Permanent Reality: The Transfiguration
One lesson is the recognition of a very human inclination to seize an encouraging experience and attempt to make it permanent, “to build three tents” there.
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Spiritual-Corporeal Duality: Achieving True Spirituality in Its Unison
Christian spiritual consciousness should not be isolated from the physical life in the world.
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Creating and Nourishing Communal Life: The Process of Salvation
The process of salvation is basically one of creating and nourishing communal life, first that of God with humanity and then, humans with each other.
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The Spectators' Cachet: There Will Always Be People To Cheer You On
There is the sentimental approbation and denouncement divide: those who support our actions and those who condemn them.
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Letting Go: You Can't Afford Getting Stuck
It is important to know that when we cling onto things, we get stuck to them. The interesting thing about being stuck is that many people don’t realize they are in fact, stuck.
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My Communion With God and the Baptism in the Words: The Souvenir Experience
It is also in filial love and for direction of the paths of others that I was encouraged to dwell on this, for the benefits of others and to bring them to that desired communion with God.
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Jesus, the Truth of the Father
Implicit in the confession of Jesus as Lord is the acknowledgment of his sovereign jurisdiction over the whole world. The universal Lordship of Christ thus goes hand in hand with the claim of his identity as Truth-Incarnate.
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Sexual Fantasy
What is known about wholesome adjustment of sexuality does not favour automatic rejection of fantasy as in the best interest of the person
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Virginity, Chastity and Love
Physical sexual relationship, should not transcend, or go beyond the degree of activity that is appropriate for the commitment that actually exists between them.
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Having and Being: People and Things
It is not wrong to want to live better, what is wrong is a style of life which is presumed to be better when it is directed towards “having” rather than “being.”
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Oh Precious
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To Every Man His Due: The Battle for Justice #6
The word Justice as it has been beautifully said, has a lofty but tragic sound. It has enkindled noble passion and inspired the practice of the finest generosity. Yet, it also reminds us of great wrongs and of widespread destruction and suffering.
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Role of Intimacy in Marriage
The reality is, of course that any single act of physical intimacy probably would include a number of these intentions.
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Death: The Decisive Act of Human Freedom
The free act by which we give ourselves over into the hands of God’s love and mercy is the central mystery of the theology of death.
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The Essence of Ritual in Sexual Relationship
If any single element is lost in the present frenzy of sexuality, it would probably be a sense of ritual.
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To Every Man His Due: The Battle For Justice #5
The word Justice as it has been beautifully said, has a lofty but tragic sound. It has enkindled noble passion and inspired the practice of the finest generosity. Yet, it also reminds us of great wrongs and of widespread destruction and suffering.
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Grafted to Him for a Purpose
Christ Jesus continues to exert an influence on those who have been justified as the vine on the branches.
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7 Letters to the Patriarch: Reliving the Old Testament
Seven Old Testament events presented in the conventional letter writing style starting with the “Dear” format.
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To Every Man His Due: The Battle for Justice #4
The word Justice as it has been beautifully said, has a lofty but tragic sound. It has enkindled noble passion and inspired the practice of the finest generosity. Yet, it also reminds us of great wrongs and of widespread destruction and suffering.
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There Are More Questions Than Answer
On one of the hand-painted advertisement phrase: “Jesus is the answer,” someone had scrawled under it, “So, what is the question?”
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Nigeria: A Case of Metaphysical Amnesia In Politics and Governance
If the ailment is not amnesia, how then do we explain the symptom of memory loss in the recycling of old, tired and corrupt leaders?
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25 Theological Interpretations of God's Redemption in Christ Jesus
How Christians understand redemption affect their conceptions not only of God and Jesus Christ, but also of the human self and the world.
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Defining the Word "Church"
As a result of its character as mystery, the Church eludes definition in a rigorous sense
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To Every Man His Due: The Battle for Justice #3
The word Justice as it has been beautifully said, has a lofty but tragic sound. It has enkindled noble passion and inspired the practice of the finest generosity. Yet, it also reminds us of great wrongs and of widespread destruction and suffering.
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To Every Man His Due: The Battle for Justice # 2
The word Justice as it has been beautifully said, has a lofty but tragic sound. It has enkindled noble passion and inspired the practice of the finest generosity. Yet, it also reminds us of great wrongs and of widespread destruction and suffering.
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To Every Man His Due: The Battle for Justice #1
The word Justice as it has been beautifully said, has a lofty but tragic sound. It has enkindled noble passion and inspired the practice of the finest generosity. Yet, it also reminds us of great wrongs and of widespread destruction and suffering.
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An Insightful Journey Through Religion, Theology, Faith and Belief
On the one hand, we have the human pole while on the other hand, we have the divine pole. What goes between these two poles is what we call religion.
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3 Little Animals that give Insights to a Fulfilled Marital life
The honey bee, the colourful butterfly, and the crawling snail.
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Skepticism: Taking the Right Dosage
It is verbally possible to doubt everything forever. Whether it is actually possible to have a living, real doubt of everything is a deeper question, and to answer it we must penetrate behind the barrier of language.
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Recovering the Truthful Garb of the Pharisees and the Scribes
It sounds so ridiculous to attribute anything good and worthy of emulation to the Pharisees, teachers of the law and the scribes. These people were the main opposition to the work and ministry of Christ in the scriptures and Christendom has largely disparaged them.
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Is She Worse Than Rahab?
Rahab‘s life teaches us that God meets each person in his/her state in life. He invites us in what we are and from where we are. He expects us to begin our response to his invitation from our varied states in life. Our salvation depends so much on how we utilize our “present” in answering God’s call
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Joshua the Human, Jesus the Divine. Perfecting the Imperfect.
A Midrash while comparing Joshua and Jesus says that when Yehoshua was born, no one took notice of his birth, but when he died all of Israel took note. This is an apt description of Yeshua whose birth went unnoticed to the world except to a few; but his death and resurrection indeed shook the world.
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The Three Unifying Love That Sustains the Marriage Institution
Married life today has become demanding and challenging; at the same time it has become humdrum and dubious as an institution. This has made many to doubt their ability to see it through to the end. Yet there is in many the hope that they are capable of living with another person without condition
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He Has Prayed for You to the Father: Christian Existence in the World
The world is a necessary constituent of Christian existence; no world, no existence. The concept of Christianity only makes sense in the world. Outside the world, the idea of Christianity is not meaningful. The understanding of the self as Christian attains its true meaning only in the world.
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The First Adam and The Last Adam. The Mystery of Man in The Mystery of The Word Incarnate
Adam is suffused of the breath of God, he is a unique living soul, a composite of flesh and blood. Jesus inaugurates the new creation and ushers in the new birth of children adopted in the Holy Spirit through faith. The first Adam was from the earth, a man of dust; the second Adam is from heaven.
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The Professed Christian and The Anonymous Christian: The Inherent Paradox
Anonymous Christians like the first son seem not to recognize their place in God. Ignorance, pride and sentiments have blinded them from acknowledging their true identity in God and accepting the authority of the Christ through the Church of God over them. Yet, these people carry out the will of God
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Now That We Are Well, Do We Still Need Him? Rereading the Story of the Ten Lepers.
The ten lepers in the gospel of Luke were beneficiaries of God’s gratuitous mercy, forgiveness and healing. Nine of them were ungrateful but one was grateful. Findings show that the ungrateful nine were overwhelmed by insensitivity, overtaken by selfishness and blinded by culpable ignorance
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The Sun Will Rise Tommorow: Causality and Objective Knowledge
Objectivity of human knowledge is not possible with reliance on causal relations. Knowledge can only be acquired through observation or experience. Sense impression is the only source of all human knowledge. What is the evidence from which the truth of events such as the sun will rise tomorrow comes
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Not one of His bones shall be broken. Preservation in Persecution and Martyrdom
Certain signs and prophesies were linked to Jesus as the messiah and saviour. The gospel of John highlights one of such prophesies in the event of Jesus’ crucifixion and death: Not one of His bones shall be broken (Jn 19:36). However, how do we bring meaning to this expression?
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Providence, the Father's Benevolent Care
The idea of providence harmonizes with the idea of Divine Fatherhood: God’s fatherly care for men. This care is motivated not by the love of men toward him but by his own love for them. He has willed to be our father in the most perfect way possible. He knows the hierarchy of values better than us
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The Church, a Community or a Building
The connection between church as a building and church as a community of worshippers goes a little deeper than simple metonymy or linguistic and etymologically explanation. The early Christians understood the assembled people of God as the body of Christ, because it is a community of believers held
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The Human Person in Search for Meaning
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God's Image in the Human Person
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Primordial Conscience and the Proper Disposition of Practical Reason
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Relating the Mark of The Beast to the Recent Events in the World
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Kneeling, the Giving of Appropriate Embodied form to the Act of Worship
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Understanding Virtue as a Human Need
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Self-Esteem and Emotional Maturity: The Foundation for Interpersonal Relationship
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Evil and Suffering in the World: Is God culpable?
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The Question of the Nature of Human Person
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Analyzing marital and celibate infidelity using the Hosean Model: Commitment, Infidelity and Reconciliation
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The Holiness of God in Yoruba Culture and Religion