Virtus In Medio Stat

Last year I purchased a used book at the local Good Will, with a 1959 copyright, titled, Jung and St. Paul: A Study of the Doctrine of Justification By Faith and Its Relation to the Concept of Individuation . I recently received a question from a friend through Facebook about whether Jungian ideas are compatible with Christianity , and Catholicism in particular. Here were my comments: "I'm not so sure yet how much or to what extent Jung has influenced him (Dr. Jordan Peterson). I've never really read his work; I just know it from generalities. I do believe that his ideas could be used as a way of replacing religion with a new age spirituality . But I think historically Christianity has been able to transform ideas of pagan origin and Christianize them. So I think if this guy has good core Catholic or Christian values then I don't see how he couldn't do the same thing with Jung." So, this got me to start reading this book again. As I read through the...

No Apologies from the Apologists: Why Are Apologists Defending Ambiguity? Laurence Gonzaga, MA, https://virtusinmediostat.blogspot.com/ I don’t engage in as much apologetics activity as I once did years ago. It can get exhausting. If anything, it helped me understand the faith better by trying to explain it to others in a way they can easily understand, even if they end up rejecting it. To put it simply, I always understood apologetics as giving an account for the faith which gives us hope (1 Peter 3:15). I’ve been out of the game long enough to not really spend much time paying attention to the apologetics landscape. With the “controversies” and theological confusion that have been coming out of the current pontificate, it has been easier for the sake of my sanity to just stay ignorant of what is going on, after all, I have had a history of privately declaring certain seats vacant, not saying which. Not seriously; but very close at times. But this issue which came up for me ...