new church life: november/december 2015
The teaching staff reflects a broad range of people, all very well versed
in their fields: the Revs. Grant Odhner, Prescott Rogers, Kurt Hy. Asplundh,
Bishop Peter Buss Jr. and myself. Biblical studies bring us into contact with
the Rev. Scott Frazier at the undergraduate level. Non-doctrinal courses are
led by Kay Alden (education), Mary Williams (speech) and Dr. Erica Hyatt
(service learning). Balancing this array of teachers and students is an art that
has been mastered by the school Administrative Assistant, Becky Henderson,
who keeps us all in order.
My thanks to all those in the past who built a foundation for today’s
Theological School education, and to all those in the present who help us
maintain it.
(To contact Dean Andy Dibb: [email protected])
O U R N E W C H U RC H V O C A B U L A R Y
Part of a continuing series developed by the Rev. W. Cairns Henderson, 1961-1966.
DOMESTIC GOOD
By this is meant the good which man derives hereditarily from his parents, and into
which he is therefore born, but which is not saving since interiorly it is evil. It is also called
“natural good”; and to make a distinction between it and the spiritual good received from the
Lord by regeneration, that good is called the “good of the natural.”
Domestic good is also called connate good. The mistaking of natural good for the good
of the natural has undoubtedly been a major factor in the development of the fallacy that man
is born good. (See Arcana Coelestia 3518)
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