National Convivium: "Philosophy and the Christian: Seeking Wisdom in the Light of Christ" Many are familiar with Tertullian’s ringing challenge to the Church: “What hath Athens to do with Jerusalem?” As far as this Church Father was concerned, philosophy and theology did not make comfortable bedfellows – and yet many Christians have answered his challenge […]
Intensive Course: "Theology of Friendship: Augustine and Aelred of Rievaulx" In John 15 Jesus says that he no longer calls his disciples servants, he calls them friends. When combined with the claim that Jesus himself was the divine logos–that he was in fact God–this would have been scandalous to any educated Greco-Roman audience. Yet here Jesus […]
Protestant Wisdom Foundations I: Reading the Bible and the World The Lord reveals his glory to us through what many of our fathers in the faith called his "two books": Scripture and nature. Both lie open to us: the latter sufficient to render us without excuse, the former sufficient to make us wise unto salvation, […]