WOF 339: The Dangers of Self-Determination
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
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We're Always Going Down That Path
We're always heading down, i suppose, brandon, in a way, it's built into the sinful human condition. That's where we tend to go as down that path. Judges ends with there was no king. There is no direction whatever. So what does god do? God's going to raise up a king whose job is to provide moral and spiritual direction. And so Christ becomes the new law. I love how thomas aquinas speaks of the eucharist as the taking into ourselves of the new law - christ himself is the nomos. But when did that happen? It happened the last supper, when jesus said, here iis my body. This is
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