"Crucified Christ" by Wassily Kandinsky (1911) - I'm the soldier dancing at the foot of the cross God doesn't know why He loves you God's self-binding act of love must finds its primordial origin before creation began, but why would God create in the first place? Matthew Stanley • Christianity
I was naked, and I hid myself This knowledge that we are "naked" – is it not the most human of notions? To realize that one is naked is to have a sudden realization of one's lack! Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
What place remains for worship in modern religion? If the attraction of a faith community is ritual and connection, what place does all this singing, chanting, and confessing about God and his attributes have to do with self-development? Is it just a covert way of talking about ourselves? Matthew Stanley • Theology
The plasticity of human desire Humans are the most un-natural of all the animals. We might frame this observation in terms of the contrast which psychoanalysis draws between instincts and drives. Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
"Religious Scenery" by Arild Rosenkran The face of God in the face of my neighbor Towards a Protestant Mysticism Although I think that Protestants have much to offer the practice of Christian mysticism, we have tended to look to other ecclesial traditions when broaching the question of mystical experiences. My sense is that we have internalized the impression that we are the illegitimate step-child of Matthew Stanley • Christianity
"The Three Circles of the Trinity, Canto 33" by John Flaxman Theosis, mediate and immediate Do we take Christ as the blueprint for God's plan for each human, or as the anomalous intersection of God and man? What theological implications does this choice have? Matthew Stanley • Christianity
