ShareHere the Evangelist tells us that Christ came into the world for us because we lacked a sufficient knowledge of God. Christ said to Pilate, “For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth” (Jn 18:37). St. John demonstrates in three ways that our [...]

ShareThe Evangelist now tells us about a certain witness to the Word, who gave testimony about the Christ’s coming. This witness was St. John the Baptist, who was the precursor or forerunner of the Word. The Evangelist describes the Baptist in four ways: (1) according to his nature, when he says, “There was a man”; [...]

ShareIn verse 3, the Evangelist demonstrated the power of the Word as it relates to the created world, inasmuch as all things are created and conserved through Him. Beginning with verse 4b, he demonstrates the power of the Word as it relates to men, inasmuch as He is the light par excellence that recreates us [...]

ShareHere the words of St. John refute natural philosophers who say that the world was not created by an intelligent being, but that creatures came to be by chance. Among their number was Democritus, who thought the world was born out of the changing flux of atomic particles. St. John insists that the Word created [...]

ShareThe lectures. St. Thomas Aquinas believed that everything we read in the gospels about Christ’s words and actions was revealed to us so that we might learn from the Word of God and follow His example. Because the Bible is the basis of all sacred theology, in order to master the science of sacred theology, [...]