Thursday, January 31, 2019

What we expect vs. what we see

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The kind of society that we expect Israel to develop would, for example, care for the most vulnerable (widows, orphans, and foreigners), pri...

Why?

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When we consider similarities and differences between the ancient cultural river and our own, we must be alert to the dangers of maintaining...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

It's cold!

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From today, at 8:00 AM CST: And the forecast: That's just crazy! 80ºF difference in less than a week!

Sidetracked

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Basil’s primary interest is not in the events behind the text, and his understanding of the creation of humanity shows this. I have sugges...

Zombie nation?

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Three generations from those foundational, identity-forming events of the Exodus from Egypt and the Sinai covenant, God’s people are in cris...
Monday, January 28, 2019

We're missing the point!

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It is significant that the statement is made here, as it is in Homily 9, not in the context of explaining the creation of humanity proper bu...
Friday, January 25, 2019

Imago dei and St. Basil

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Twice within the same paragraph in Homily 9 Basil uses a form of the word theologia . Noteworthy here is that, even though the context is on...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

About that historical-critical method and the church fathers…

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One would be very hard pressed to find in the earliest interpreters of sacred Scripture an approach that is intent only on finding direct on...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Augustine on Answers in Genesis

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In Homily 260c Augustine compares the promises of Isaiah 57:19, “peace upon peace,” with the sabbath day of rest that is contained "in ...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Morning and evening as Augustine sees them

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In the days we experience, light declines as we get closer to sunset and we call that evening. Also, light returns as we get closer to sunri...
Monday, January 21, 2019

Augustine had more sense that we do…

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There is, he [Augustine] states, just one day, and it should not be understood in the same way we understand days that are measured and coun...
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Does anybody who knows Greek proofread the covers?

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I was checking a bibliographic reference yesterday and ran across this: The accent in σὖν is impossible, and, besides, the word σύν makes n...
Friday, January 18, 2019

Children of the day

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The knowledge of the angels being connected to evening and morning simply repeats itself in the days of creation. Morning indicates knowledg...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

Even Augustine!

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On the seventh day God rests from all his works and sanctifies that day. Augustine explains that just as the first six days are not to be un...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

St. Basil on the prowl

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Basil points out various scientific theories about the shape of the earth and how each one overthrows the previous. He labels the purveyors ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

Fourth–fifth century hermeneutics

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“Their [the 4th–5th century fathers] understanding of biblical exegesis,” he explains, “remained that of the more ancient period, a more dis...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Parachute drop!

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Part of the point I am trying to make is that we cannot simply parachute into the context of the Fathers and disregard it by plucking out qu...
Friday, January 11, 2019

What then shall we say?

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It is apparent that the traditional distinction between Antioch and Alexandria along the lines of literal/historical versus allegorical read...
Thursday, January 10, 2019

Is this a legitimate reading?

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Recall here John MacArthur’s condemnation of his very first sermon, based on the text “And the angel rolled the stone away,” in which he pre...
Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Hidden in plain sight

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Both [Antiochene and Alexandrian] expected a deeper sense, and neither was concerned with the reference to the events behind the text or the...