Ranking the Theologians By Jeff Boldt When I get a rare moment of inactivity and my thoughts can wander, I often come back to the question of what makes a good theologian. Why do I like the theologians I like? These are rather imp... Read More...
A Geography of Two Cities: Augustine’s Hippo Regius By Edward L. Smither In St. Augustine’s magisterial work, The City of God, he sought to make sense of the believer’s sojourn in a fallen world by presenting a paradigm of two cities: an “earthly” city made u... Read More...
Tribute to an Orthodox Autodidact Faith Seeking Understanding The Theological Witness of Father Matthew Baker Introduction by Alexis Torrance St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, pp. 368, $28 Review by Richard J. Mammana Jr. The Fathers are ahead of us, with Jesus — it is we who should be r... Read More...
The Viaticum of a Victim Mentality By Micah Hogan From all disordered and sinful affections; and from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil, Good Lord, deliver us. — The Great Litany, BCP 1979, pg. 149. If your interactions ... Read More...
Ever Ancient, Ever New Ancient Christianity: The Development of its Institutions and Practices By Angelo di Berardino ICCS Press, pp. 718. $89.95 Review by John Mason Lock As a young college student discovering the beauties ... Read More...
Ancient Christian Writers or Fathers of the Church? Parsing The Peculiar Patrology of Fr. John Behr The process of writing theology might be compared to the making of a fine distilled spirit...
“In Him All Things Hold Together”: A Theological Meditation for Aspiring Christian Universities The call to realize our identity as a Christian university is a great challenge, but it is also liberating, because it means that we don’t need to compete with the publicly-funded, provincial universities. This is good news, because we simply do not have the economic, infrastructural, and even personal resources to do the public research university thing better than they do it. But ... in the person of Christ and in the powerful presence of the Spirit who leads God’s people into all truth, we do have the potential to become something that public, secular universities cannot be: a university in the true sense of the word, united in the uni veritas, the one or whole truth that holds together in the living Christ.
Everywhere, always, and by all: The character of Catholic teaching Fr. Mac Stewart reviews two volumes in patristics, concerned especially with the character of Catholic doctrine.
