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Israel Centeno Entre los primeros que escribieron sobre Cristo, el apóstol Pablo es, con toda probabilidad, la voz más inmediata en el tiempo a la muerte y resurrección del Señor. En su primera carta a los Corintios (1 Co 15, 3-8), Pablo transmite una proclamación que no inventa, sino que él mismo “recibió” (παρέλαβον, parelabon),…
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🇪🇸🇬🇧Spanish and English version Israel Centeno En la octava revelación de Revelaciones del divino amor, Julian de Norwich contempla el rostro de Cristo en su agonía. Lo ve desfigurado, cubierto de sangre y dolor, pero sin rastro de ira. En su mirada sólo hay compasión, ternura y un ardiente deseo de salvar. Para Julian, la…
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Israel Centeno The Vocation of Woman in the Order of Nature and Grace: An Integrated Reading of Edith Stein Israel Centeno In The Vocation of Man and Woman According to the Order of Nature and Grace, Edith Stein — Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross — laments that the word “vocation” has been reduced to a…
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One does not need to be a theologian to sense the truth of original sin. History itself bears witness. Time and again, with the best of intentions, human beings have gathered in groups, tribes, villages, nations, empires—seeking peace, longing to build a kingdom of justice. And yet, again and again, the same pattern emerges: the…
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The Substance of Faith May 5, 2017, at Baylor ISR . The speaker also mentions previously meeting Eleonore Stump at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and later at Virginia Tech (3:16) in 1990, and the University of Missouri, Columbia during his undergraduate studies, before she moved to St. Louis University Here we go, with the subject of atonement. At the outset, let’s note…
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The Nonbeliever’s Journey Toward the Mystery In an age marked by spiritual fragmentation, cultural disorientation, and the exhaustion of absolute narratives, a subtle yet persistent longing still pulses within the human heart: the thirst for fullness. This is not merely a religious impulse in the conventional sense, but a deeper, more primal yearning—one that precedes…
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Israel Centeno Brandon Rickabaugh and J.P. Moreland have written a book that is both a refined rebuttal and a meticulous provocation. The Substance of Consciousness is not merely another defense of substance dualism; it is a contemporary rearticulation of an intuition that has long been buried—not refuted—under the weight of philosophical, ideological, and scientific prejudice.…
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Israel Centeno Estuve pensando en Roberto Roena toda la tarde. No fue nostalgia. Fue otra cosa. Un sacudón por dentro. Un bajo, desde lo más hondo, se activaba y empezaba a remover cosas viejas. Y en medio de esa sensación aparecieron los recuerdos del 79, 80. Yo con 19 o 20 años. Saliendo de la…
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Israel Centeno There is something profoundly unsettling in the way pop culture turns those who should horrify us into icons. The United States —and by extension, much of the Western world— seems to have a lasting fascination with figures who, in various ways, have embodied crime, violence, and moral transgression. From mobsters like John Dillinger…
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Israel Centeno bilingual 🇬🇧/🇪🇸. Language is not a tool; it is a threshold. A fracture between silence and presence, between being that has no need to speak and being that cries out for meaning. What we have discussed today revolves around this tension: the word as eternity and the word as a sign worn down…
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