One item I am producing is an article on the sources of Nicholas of Cusa’s Trinitarian thought. This is a wildly complex subject, as...

My summer has been completely consumed by something which I know will probably consume most of the rest of my life, namely The Institute...

I had never been someone given to what at that time I would have thought an excessive devotion to the Theotokos, but this did get me...

And this brings me to my thought tonight on something about Calvin, namely his peculiar Trinitarianism. Calvin consciously slighted the...

For those of you dying to do some further reading on St. Maximus, I would suggest you get Lars Thunberg’s monumental Microcasm and...

Despite the fact that I spend most of my time here in libraries, my life still has some excitement in it. For one, of course, is the...

All Souls College Today was not quite as productive as I had hoped. The washing machine with my laundry that I started at 9 PM last night...

Yesterday I did get my reader’s card at the Bodleian (Oxford’s main library), and should the Bodleian ever fail me (doubtful), I have a...

It’s about 8 PM here, which means it’s 3 PM in Allentown. I have been running out of steam since this morning, when my flight got into...

A few days ago on O & H, Fr. Andrew (the big Kahuna of the blog) posted a video of an interview with James Jordan, a man well-known in...

But it is all more sinister than mere quibbling about freedom of thought – – important as that is,  indeed, incredibly so – – or the...

The last two months have been overwhelming: some things good, some bad, and some downright GREAT!!!! On the good side, I finally finished...

I say all of that to address something else. Today I left coffee hour early to attend the confirmation of my niece and nephew. They...

If something can’t go on forever, it won’t. At some point I will pack this blog in, and given that I have been too overwhelmed with other...

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH. That felt better, now back to Origen and St. Athanasius. As I will be laying out before my students, so much of...

And this is where I believe the nominalism of the Reformers brings them up against the Fathers. They may or may not have been aware of...

Sunday of the Forefathers, December 16, 2012 Colossians 3:4-11; Luke 14:16-24 Rev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick Emmaus, Pennsylvania In the...

“How does the Orthodox perspective on the doctrine of Justification handle these Calvinist-wielded texts which seem to resist a...

As most of you know, my wife and I have been considering adoption, and at the beginning of June we brought a young man to our home. I was...

“When Jesus says that a good ‘tree’ produces good fruit and a bad ‘tree’ produces bad fruit, is this ‘tree’ referring to *nature* or...