Patristic Scriptural Exegesis
Patristic Scriptural Exegesis will offer the methods and tendencies of a pre-modern hermeneutic of Scripture. The Church Fathers and Mothers read Scripture with certain assumptions, likely different than contemporary assumptions and methodologies. How did they read Scripture? Can we develop something of a Patristic lectio divina (Sacred reading) and apply…
Patristic Scriptural Exegesis
Patristic Scriptural Exegesis will offer the methods and tendencies of a pre-modern hermeneutic of Scripture. The Church Fathers and Mothers read Scripture with certain assumptions, likely different than contemporary assumptions and methodologies. How did they read Scripture? Can we develop something of a Patristic lectio divina (Sacred reading) and apply…
Introduction to the Desert Fathers (St. Antony)
Introduction to the Desert Fathers is a course that examines some of the lives and the sayings of some of the Coptic Desert Fathers. The course will place a great emphasis on St. Antony the great by studying The Life of Antony by St. Athanasius of Alexandria, The Seven Letters…