Editorial

Financial Corruption and Reformation

A fundamental question largely overlooked until recently is: why did Europe have its Reformation at all? Reformation started with economic corruption. In 1516, Johann Tetzel, a Dominican friar and papal commissioner for indulgences, was sent to Germany by the Roman Catholic Church to sell indulgences to raise money in order to rebuild St Peter’s Basilica […]

TURN TO HOLY WAYS

In 1851 about half the population of Britain attended church regularly. Now it is about 8%. Statistical data on religious beliefs are available only for the last fifty or so years, but they show a similar trajectory to that of church attendance. Baptism was once universal and so widely held to be essential that in […]

Yoga Not Tool For Becoming Divine

“It is an art and science for healthy living. The word ‘Yoga’ is derived from the Sanskrit root yuj meaning ‘to join’, ‘to yoke’ or ‘to unite.’ According to Yogic scriptures, the practise of Yoga leads to the union of individual consciousness with universal consciousness. According to modern scientists, everything in the universe is just […]

Science as Ideology

Paul Feyerabend (1924-1994) said about his wife in the last days of his life, “Grazia is with me in the hospital, which is a great joy, and she fills the room with light.” Human relations and values of life are so very important. “My life has been the result of accidents, not of goals and […]

The Call of Conscience or Calculation

Man is literally “being there, it denotes the way of being of human beings. Being there call for a way of being. Man more than a being man is becoming. Man faces every moment as call to respond to a possibility, and it inevitably involves guilt. Every time I always lag behind my possibilities. The […]

All Things Are Made Through Him

The Bible opens with “In the beginning” when “God created the heavens and the earth.” John’s Gospel states: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The relationship between the Word and the world is clearly articulated thus: “All things were made through Him, and without […]

The Sorry Degradation of Oneself

Prehistoric civilizations were in full harmony with the world of their surroundings. The distinctive feature of a historic society is its detachment from nature. An abyss opened between prehistoric and historic civilizations as a result of humans using their rationality. Man conceives existence as determined by three movements: acceptance, defence and truth. Reason tells the […]

Understanding God in Persecution

The philosophic writer Will Durant said: “Nowadays no one …dares to look at the life as a whole ….Everyone knows his part, but not its meaning in the play as a whole. Life is losing its purpose and is becoming empty just when it seemed so full of promise. …We shall define philosophy as a […]

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