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God is darkness

Jon Mark wrote 19 hours ago: Yesterday, one of the saints honored by the Church was the prophet Zephaniah, whose name means … more →

Tags: Mysticism, Reflections, emptying, Detachment, God, Darkness, god as mystery

Starlit darkness...2 comments

Chris Goan wrote 4 days ago: The stars are out. And Michaela reminded me of a discussion we had a few years ago about the mystery … more →

Tags: Photography, spirituality, Holy Darkness, Michaela, Mystery, Our House, starlight, winter

AAR Paper: "Patristic Perspectives on the Cross: A Reinterpretation"3 comments

Adam Kotsko wrote 3 weeks ago: [The following is the paper I presented at this year's AAR meeting in AAR, in a session on "Trauma a … more →

Tags: Politics, Christian Theology, Justin Martyr, Athanasius, Conference papers, trauma

Patristic PDFs: A love story11 comments

Adam Kotsko wrote 2 months ago: Those of us who do work on the patristic writers have the dubious privilege of easy access to the An … more →

Tags: Teaching, Irenaeus, Basil of Caesarea, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Perpetua and Felicity

Luminous Darkness

Chris wrote 2 months ago: D. H. Williams, a patristics professor at Baylor University, draws guidance from the spirituality of … more →

Tags: Spiritual Life

The Orthodox Faith-Doctrine-Sources-The Fathers

sowingseedsoforthodoxy wrote 2 months ago: [As stated in my About, I want to tell the world about the Orthodox faith. Up to this point, my blog … more →

Tags: Christian Orthodox faith, Saints, Ignatius of Antioch, Irenaeus of Lyons, Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria

Book Recommendation: The Drama Of Atheistic Humanism -- Henri De Lubac, S.J

djeter wrote 2 months ago: Fr. De Lubac traced the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God and C … more →

Tags: Book Recommendations, atheistic humanism, Comparing Nietzsche And Doestoevky, Death of God, Denial Of God, doestoevsky, Dostoevsky’s Profession Of Faith, Faith, Henri de Lubac

Approaches To God’s Existence1 comment

djeter wrote 2 months ago: Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. The important thing is not to s … more →

Tags: Apologetics, John Henry Newman, theodicy, G. K. Chesterton, Fr. Bernard Lonergan, Atheism, St Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal, Peter Kreeft

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

djeter wrote 3 months ago: ROBERT LOUIS WILKEN is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the History of Christianity at the Univer … more →

Tags: Book Recommendations, Dante, Augustine, Saint Paul, St. Augustine, Origen of Alexandria, Robert Louis Wilken, Early Christianity, Res Gestae

Epectasis in Kathryn Tanner

sakirkland wrote 3 months ago: Here is a big quote from ‘Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity’, which I have been thoroughly … more →

Tags: Epectasis, Irenaeus, kathryn tanner

Gregory of Nyssa and apophatic theology

sakirkland wrote 4 months ago: Recently I have been working on my thesis proposal for next year. This has lead to me to read a bit … more →

Tags: apophatic, Infinity

Just added links to online texts by St. Gregory of Nyssa

Michael wrote 4 months ago: Click the link to ONLINE TEXTS to check them out. I will add other authors and texts once I have the … more →

Tags: Updates

why obamamania withered

Stephen wrote 4 months ago: That which one possesses like a thing can no longer be hoped for. Gregory of Nyssa, Contra Eunomium, … more →

Tags: History, Obamamania, HOPE

farther, closer

Stephen wrote 4 months ago: God “has given and always gives to beings the power of coming to be and also perseverance in b … more →

Tags: Philosophy, Hans Urs von Balthasar, immanence, Transcendence

practicing being itself

Stephen wrote 4 months ago: Gregory [of Nyssa]’s grasp of the radical ontological disparity between God and creation is ba … more →

Tags: Philosophy, David Bentley Hart, deification, Virtue

Is It Possible To See God?

vhoagland wrote 5 months ago: St. Gregory of Nyssa isn’t afraid to ask questions, even ultimate questions. Can we, poor huma … more →

Tags: Passionists, Religion, Christian, Mystery of God, Passionists, Seeing God, The Beatitudes

Like an Inaccessible Rock

vhoagland wrote 5 months ago: St. Gregory of Nyssa has a beautiful reflection on God who is inaccessible–like an inaccessible rock … more →

Tags: Passionists, Religion, Christian, Contemplation, God, inaccessible, Passionists, Prayer

Church Fathers on the Psalms

Richard wrote 6 months ago: Two really interesting looking commentaries on the Psalms are Psalms 1-50 and Psalms 51-150 in the A … more →

Tags: Early Church / Fathers, Psalter, Commentary, Psalms, Athanasius, Augustine, Church Fathers, Hippolytus, ORIGEN

Union with God: Luther turns Nyssa upside down!

jantoine wrote 7 months ago: Martin Luther’s and Gregory of Nyssa’s Understanding of “Union with God” A Comparative Essay Gregory … more →

Tags: Anthropology, Eschatology, Regent College, Religion, Christian, Christianity, Essay, forensic imputation, from glory to glory


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