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...

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...

“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.