Quiet Time: Questioning Traditional Doctrines
Blessed are the peacemakers, Jesus says in Matthew 5:9 — not the peace-keepers, not those who smooth things over to avoid discomfort, but the peacemakers....
This is devotionals, drawing on Matthew 5:9. It carries an emotional tone of hope, compassion and joy.
Blessed are the peacemakers, Jesus says in Matthew 5:9 — not the peace-keepers, not those who smooth things over to avoid discomfort, but the peacemakers. There is a difference. Peace-keeping silences the honest question. Peacemaking holds the question and the questioner with equal reverence. The Catholic tradition has always understood this. When Thomas Aquinas sat in his Dominican cell and dared to baptize Aristotle's philosophy into Christian theology, half the Church thought he was a heretic.…
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