Introduction

John of Damascus was a Christian monk and theologian who was born and raised in Damascus. He was born either in 675 CE or in 676 CE. While according to tradition, he died on the 4th of December 749 CE at his monastery, Mar Saba near Jerusalem. He is …

One day as the starts were turning and the devil was scheming. Satan showed his face before God as he once did at the time of Job's temptation. He was looking with envy at the angels, his heart was grieving at the archangels. And he was full of hatred at …

How ought we define intelligence? Is it the capacity to find complex solutions? Is it measured in the amount of truth one knows? If we go for the former definition, intelligence becomes detached from reality. If we go for the later, it becomes as plastic as a truth table. However …

I was wrong on the insistence that Jesus of Nazareth never existed. It was caused by my omission from my study of a passage from Josephus: "Festus was now dead, and Albinus was but upon the road; so he assembled the sanhedrim of judges, and brought before them the brother …