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Special Pleading for Helenism

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on January 20, 2022

“Immanent critique” is a Marxist method of analysis arising out of the notorious Frankfurt School of subversive scholarship. In theory, the immanent critiquer enters intellectually into a targeted culture to develop its thinking along its own lines so as to … Continue reading →

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Just Released: Origen’s Revenge

by Brian Patrick Mitchell Posted on October 15, 2021

Is the difference of male and female to be “completely shaken off” so that men and women are no longer men and women but merely human beings? The great seventh-century saint Maximus the Confessor said yes, but such thinking is … Continue reading →

Posted in Church, Life | Tagged Aristotle, Christian anthropology, Evagrius Ponticus, gender, Greek philosophy, Gregory of Nyssa, Hebrew Scripture, image of God, male and female, Maximus the Confessor, Origen, Origen's Revenge, Origenism, patristics, Plato, sexuality | Leave a comment

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