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Materialism: Can Matter Explain Everything?, The Question of Judgment, Why Do the Laws of Nature Exist?

 Materialism is the philosophical position that matter and physical processes constitute the whole of reality. According to this view, everything that exists—including consciousness, rational thought, morality, beauty, and religious belief—is ultimately reducible to physical interactions governed by natural laws. Human beings are therefore understood as highly complex biological organisms whose thoughts and experiences arise entirely from material causes. The remarkable success of modern science has led many to assume that materialism naturally follows from scientific discovery. Yet this assumption is itself philosophical rather than scientific. Science investigates physical phenomena and their relationships, but it does not directly answer whether physical reality is all that exists. The claim that matter is the only reality is a metaphysical conclusion that extends beyond the scope of empirical observation. What makes the debate especially significant is that criticism of materia...
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The Christology of St Cyril of Alexandria and the Implications of it.

 If one were to express the heart of the Christian faith as concisely and precisely as possible, one could hardly find a better summary than the two-word aphorism “Jesus saves.” Arguably, the purpose of theology is nothing more than to reflect critically on the meaning of those two words. At the same time, fundamental disagreements about how one understands what it means to say that “Jesus saves” have accounted for countless theological controversies in the history of Christianity, and certainly will contiue to do so. In the contemporary Church, fundamental disagreements about such issues as sexuality and the Church’s role in contemporary culture are often expressed in the political categories of conservative and liberal, “left wing” and “right wing.” But such characterization proves inadequate because it reduces fundamental disagreement to matter of degrees on a continuum (with an ever shifting middle) rather than addressing what is really a fundamental disagreement about what it ...
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