Reflections on our inner worlds.
Souls and Hearts is excited to bring you a new monthly feature — The Kingdom Within. Each month, Dr. Gerry reflects on passages from the Bible, the writings of the saints, Church documents, and the writings of noteworthy theologians, philosophers, and spiritual writers from a parts work perspective. The Kingdom Within comes to your email inbox every third Monday of the month.
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Saint Bonaventure Part One: Relationality and the Primacy of Love
June 16, 2025

“Let your love lead your steps to Jesus wounded, to Jesus crowned with thorns … enter with your whole being through the door of his side into Jesus’ heart itself.” Saint Bonaventure, On the Perfection of Life Saint Bonaventure, born in 1221, was an Italian theologian and mystic who joined the Franciscan order in 1243. He taught at the University of Paris from 1248 to 1257 until he was made Minister General of the Franciscan Order. In 1273 Pope Gregory X appointed him to be a cardinal. Pope Sixtus IV canonized Bonaventure a saint in 1482 and Pope Sixtus V... READ MORE
Previous Kingdom Within Articles

Saint Augustine and Parts Psychology in his Confessions
May 19, 2025
“We long to praise you, though we are burdened by our mortality. Though we are conscious of sin, we long...
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Evagrius of Pontus, the Parts of the Soul, and the Seven Deadly Sins
April 21, 2025
“Prayer is an ascent of the spirit to God” — Evagrius of Pontus, Chapters on Prayer Evagrius of Pontus (345-399...
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Thomistic Psychology and Parts: Are Parts the Result of Sin and Fragmentation? Did Jesus Have Parts? Did Jesus Experience Trauma?
March 17, 2025
I was recently delighted to listen to a two-part YouTube presentation by Dr. Christin McIntyre entitled Applied Thomistic Psychology where...
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Self-Friendship, Self-Sacrifice, and Self-Love
February 17, 2025
“Does a man have friendship toward himself? He [Aristotle] observes that this question must be postponed since it is a...
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The Garments of Skins and Our Protective Stances
January 20, 2025
After God condemned Adam and Eve for eating of the Tree of Good and Evil, but right before he casts...
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Saint Catherine of Siena and “Becoming God”
December 16, 2024
“God became man that man might become god.” -St. Irenaeus (Against Heresies, V, Preface) This provocative statement originated with St....
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Virtue and Human Nature
November 18, 2024
“God made man in His image, that is to say… clad with every virtue” -St. Dorotheus of Gaza (Instructions, I.I)...
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Soul as a Mirror
October 21, 2024
“For the soul is made after the image and likeness of God, as divine Scripture also shows, when it says...
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Image and Likeness
September 17, 2024
“He has persuaded us to be artisans of God’s likeness, to the end that we received the due recompense of...
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Man’s True Nature
August 19, 2024
“When the immortal Son created man, He gave man the aim of himself becoming god.” -St. Gregory Nazianzus (Orations, XLIII, 48)...
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