Patristics

As part of my class on the Trinity this year, I looked into Arabic Christian theology. This stuff isn’t well known by Western theologians,...

When I get a rare moment of inactivity and my thoughts can wander, I often come back to the question of what makes a...

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...

Faith Seeking Understanding The Theological Witness of Father Matthew Baker Introduction by Alexis Torrance St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, pp. 368, $28 The Fathers are ahead of us, with...

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...

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 process of writing theology might be compared to the making of a fine distilled spirit...

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.

Fr. Mac Stewart reviews two volumes in patristics, concerned especially with the character of Catholic doctrine.

Tonight the Church begins the celebration of the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. In the Western monastic tradition, the Divine Office for...