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A PAGAN IN ST. PETER’S
REFLECTING ON THE DRAWING OF THEOLOGICAL LINES Buried deep below the choir of St. Peter’s church in Geneva, John Calvin’s church, is a well-preserved burial shrine for an ancient pagan chieftain of the 1st century BCE Allobrogian people. The site was discovered in the 1970s when St. Peter’s excavated below the cathedral to install a new…
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THE HISTORICAL ADAM AND OTHER MYTHS: MEDITATIONS ON THE PAST, PART 3
The importance of the past In his introduction to Athanasius’s On Incarnation, C. S. Lewis suggested that one should read at least one old book for every new one. By old, he had in mind books from the previous century and beyond. He mentions in a single breath St. Luke, St. Paul, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas,…