The Theology Corner

  • The balance of work

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai in a short intervention, said: “Imagine that life is a game of 5 balls that you try to manipulate in the air without dropping them. One is made of rubber, the rest are made of glass. The five balls are: Work, family, health, friends and soul. It won’t be long before…

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  • Theology Essays – My thinking process – part 1

    For anyone beginning Theology studies, regardless of the specific focus, writing essays is inevitable. Reading and writing will be essential components of your journey. Many beginners often struggle with where to start. This post aims to address that, offering insights into the process and concepts I use, which have been crucial to my work. I…

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  • Theology Study. Motivation

    ”… you should be motivated to do as thorough a job as possible, because you are seeking to serve God and His people…” (Michael Jensen in How to Write a theology essay)

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  • Lent and Easter @Christmas? Just a thought!

    I was reading the Catholic Herald issue from Lent 2018 when I came across a small piece of text from Mary Kenny (see below) that made me somehow relate with the idea of how ephemeris our lives are. The fact is that the large majority of us don’t spend much time thinking about it and…

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  • Sources of Faith

    As a devout Catholic who is actively involved in my community and church, I have always believed that my faith and spirituality are firmly grounded in the Roman Catholic Church. However, life is a journey and my perspective has broadened over time. My parish priest, the Most Rev. Fr. Wiborg Pietra Torres, who was a…

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  • Short notes on suffering

    God knows what it is to suffer in Christ although suffering cannot overcome God. God is above and beyond suffering. Otherwise if God suffers in all of his being and if God is eternal, then suffering becomes potentially eternal as well. Now a central Christian insight into suffering is that is it real, but temporary.…

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  • about Paul

    “For I judged not myself to know any thing among you…” ” And I was with you in weakness…” ” And my speech and my preaching was not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in shewing of the Spirit and power;” ” That your faith might not stand on the wisdom of men, but…

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  • The Cross – part A

    This week I came across this image from the music artist Madonna. In the last couple of years, we have observed a trend of people wearing crosses as fashion artefacts. Some examples follow. At this occasion, I’m not specifically looking to discuss the fashion tendency or either the potential expression of the faith of the…

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  • The Journey Begins

    Thanks for joining  the Theology Corner.  This is blog for Theology and about Theology. We will be covering Theology and related subjects like Philosophy, Sociology, History, Archeology and (why not) Science. Want this to be a space for collaboration and thoughts sharing. If you have a subject you would like to cover feel free to…

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  • Fundamental Theology

    From Wikipedia: “…fundamental theology does not directly work towards evangelisation, but rather towards the analysis of where and by what means God brings human beings to assent to his Word“ This definition is rather interesting as during the first centuries of the church such as the Patristic and Middle Age – St. Thomas Aquinas is…

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