There are more than one good approaches in evangelization. With all due love, respect and understanding, there is one in which Christians seek to defend themselves or evangelize non-Christians as if they are dealing with pagans in a you-are-wrong and I-am-right battle. For example, in Summa contra Gentiles (or Liber de Veritate Catholicae Fidei contra errores Infidelium), St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), the Angelic Doctor, set out to do his apologetic work with the mindset that the world is divided into two camps, with the believers against the non-believers.

However, in our present endeavour, we begin with the presupposition that the whole world belongs to one people or one big family. Thought of and created by the Most Holy Trinity in eternity, the whole world, sinful and broken as it has become, is "called by God's grace to salvation" (Lumen Gentium, no. 13). Since "there is one God, and there is one who brings God and men together, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself to redeem all people" (1Tim 2:5), all of humanity ultimately belongs to its Creator and Redeemer "who wants all people to be saved and to come to know the truth" (1Tm 2:4). As a people in the process of being "brought into unity from the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit" (St. Cyprian, De Orat. Dom. 23: PL 4, 553), everyone in the world is therefore invited to partake in the unsearchable riches of the Triune God. This is revealed to us directly through Jesus Christ and His Mystical Body the Church.

While St. Thomas sought to deal with the Gentiles' possibility of commission, we attempt to deal with the possibility of omission among all, complementarily so. As each of us without exception is constantly called to attain a higher level of growth or perfection, this project seeks not only to remind the non-believers and the believers, but the authors and everyone else as well. Consequently, not only do we envision that "there are no Gentiles and Jews, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarians, savages, slaves, or free men, but Christ is all, Christ is in all" (Col 3:12), but also that we are all living and working towards the day when the all-loving God of all is "all in all" (1Cor 15:28).

Traditionally, St. Gregory Palamas (c.1296-1359) is a major figure in the Eastern Orthodox Church who can be compared with St. Thomas Aquinas in many ways. As Pope John Paul II encourages the Church to breathe with her two lungs (i.e., Western and Eastern Christian traditions), we hope that these Aquinas and Palamas notes would become a delightful source of enlightenment, inspiring us gently towards a deeper and wider contemplation of universal truth. At the same time, it must be acknowledged that the present project will move slowly. It is to be done without involving any pressure on its authors and may require quite a few years or decades ahead to complete. Listed below in alphabetical order which covers a variety of topics, these philosophical, theological and spiritual entries may be revised and upgraded as deemed necessary. Thank you.