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St Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Calisthenics
I recently had to do a presentation for my History of Theology class on a text by St. Ignatius of Loyola called The Spiritual Exercises – specifically, the “Annotations” ammended to it. For those who may not be as familiar with St. Ignatius of Loyola:
He was born 1491 in Spain and became a strong defender of orthodox [...]
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Some Notes about the Apocalypse of Abraham
As you may have noted, unfortunately I have not had the time to post as much as I would like to here on Heavenly Ascents. I have been bogged down with multiple papers and presentations for my classes which have taken up most of my time. I would like, however, to share with you some [...]
The Peculiarly Familiar Doctrines of Origen
We have recently been discussing the early Christian thinker Origen in my “Age of the Fathers” class. While we have been focusing mostly on his thoughts regarding the Trinity, there has been much in my readings that have struck as peculiarly familiar to my beliefs as a Latter-day Saint. I guess this is to be [...]
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