The North American Patristics Society (NAPS) will have its annual meeting on May 27-29, 2010 in chicago. The call for papers is now available online. You can submit a paper to the general pool or to the following subject areas: Gender and Nag Hammadi (Chairs: Katherine Veach and Nathan Bennett) The Reception and Interpretation of Sacred Texts in Early Christianity: The Transfiguration (Chairs: ...

... College, Nashville, Tennessee. The annual forum, aimed at catechists, offers an intensive study of a particular point of doctrine or devotion. This year’s particular point is patristics. (Now, say that five times fast.) I don’t know how I got on the program with the other speakers, who have actual gravitas, but somehow I did. You can find out more about the program at Aquinas ...

...to all you students/scholars of Patristics, Early Church History, and Historical Theology: the NAPS (North American Patristic Society) call for papers is open ... , and it is a great time for people with particular interests in the Patristic period to connect. It is almost like a Patristics retreat, since everyone generally stays in the same hotel and gets drinks in the lounge at happy hour. Even ...

... way of receiving Holy Communion, and when the work was finished he gave a manuscript to the Holy Father. The Pope wrote back to the Bishop praising the work and his accuracy of knowledge of the patristics. Bishop Schneider told he had also asked the Pope to stop distributing Communion in the hand in Papal Masses, and even if the Pope's answer was supportive it was not certain that it would ...

... helped me through a very busy summer and fall. The guidelines remain the same as the Modest Proposal entry back in November, 2006 and my additions in August, 2007. The last day of submission will be November 30 and the postings will be up in the week of December 6th. Remember you can offer submissions on the carnival site or the dedicated e-mail (patristics-carnival@hotmail.com) Peace,Phil

... -GB" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";">[6] was a former chaplain RN, QCVS, and a noted translator of and commenter upon ante-Nicene patristics. Fortunately for both men, their latest row – if something so one-sided could be called a row – was swiftly ended by the entry and intervention of by far the primary person of consequence in ...

... . (4) Heresies do not go away; they simply reemerge in different packaging. In 10 chapters, McGrath treats the topic of heresy in a way I have not yet encountered before.  His treatment has references from the patristics, all the way to our present day with authors like Dan Brown and Richard Dawkins. I learned a great deal from this book, and I think every Christian will be immensely helped by ...

... writing team, Mr. Gregory DiPippo. Gregory is originally a native of Providence, Rhode Island, who has been studying, living and working in Rome for several years now. He has studied both Classics and Patristics, and is fluent in both Latin and ancient Greek -- as well as Italian. While still a student in Rome, he was introduced to the usus antiquior in its former Roman home, the church of the ...

Anyone interested in patristics or Church history will be pleased to know that Gregory Nazianzen's justly famous Theological Orations (the public domain translation of Charles Gordon Brown and James Edward Swallow) are now available in paperback. The Five Theological Orations, first delivered in AD 379 by Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the three “Cappadocian Fathers” of the early Church, ...

... feel free to contact me if you're interested in participating. I'm especially keen to gather papers that engage theologically with different aspects of Coakley's work (e.g. patristics, contemplative prayer, feminism, gender, desire, Trinity, and so forth). If you're interested in learning more about Coakley's theological project, you should check out the extended interview in ...

... in the core programs. This will elevate in the minds of the faculty, the students and the church that pastoral care in accordance with the mandate of the Gospel is of equal value to liturgics, patristics and history. For a school with a tradition of selling itself as a Pastoral school it only makes sense to fully vale pastoral practice. These fixes would take about two years to fully implement ...

... done regularly, but hosted by a different blog each time. The two I've added are the Carnival of Space, done every week, and the Philosophers' Carnival done every three weeks. The links take you to the home page which links to each of the individual hosts. I'll probably add more as time goes by. Update: Only a few minutes later and I've already added the Patristics Carnival.

... her own classes and the "littles" she teaches. T is for Theology. Hi, my name is Melinda, and I'm a theology geek. I love reading books and online resources about patristics, ecclesiology, the nature and character of God, the Sacraments, and how Believers have worshiped and believed since the days Jesus was on earth. I know it's not quite "light" reading, but I love ...

... the monumental task of constructing, researching and writing a PhD. Present were four professors - the historian, the linguist, the lecturer in doctrine and modern theology from the Baptist College, and the patristics scholar (playing the dual role of supervisor and director of postgraduate research). These men (with the accidental omission of Roy from the Baptist College) had received and read a ...

On Social Justice: St. Basil the Great (Popular Patristics), trans. C. Paul Schroeder, St Vladimirs Seminary Pr (2009). Another passage exemplifies how little humans have changed. From polytheistic heathen, to Basil, to political activists of today, people find significance in our natural environment: See, now, how the multitude of our sin has altered the course of the year and changed the ...