Before he launched into his own career as an interpreter of Scripture, St. Jerome (345-420) was encouraged by St. Gregory Nazianzen to immerse himself in the writings of the Greek Fathers and especially in those of Origen of Alexandria (185-254), considered to be the most import…
General introduction -- Preface of Jerome -- Homily 1: the vision of the prophet (Ezekiel 1:1-6; 2:1ff.) -- Homily 2: against the false prophets (Ezekiel 13:1-19) -- Homily 3: against the false prophets and elders (Ezekiel 13:1, 17-22; 14:1-8) -- Homily 4: the famine and the fer…
Before he launched into his own career as an interpreter of Scripture, St. Jerome (345-420) was encouraged by St. Gregory Nazianzen to immerse himself in the writings of the Greek Fathers and especially in those of Origen of Alexandria (185-254), considered to be the most import…
The poems of St. Paulinus of Nola
The Poems of St. Paulinus of Nola
The poems of St. Paulinus of Nola
In general, the corpus of Paulinus' poetry has as its purpose to encourage Christians to persevere in a life of Christian commitment and to demonstrate to nominal Christians and to benevolent non-Christians the nature of that commitment. None of the extant poems were written aft…
Belief, doubt and unbelief lie at the centre of all human experience, even for the Christian. St. Paul was able to speak of belief and unbelief in the same breath, in the form of a prayer. In our day, men are more likely to profess belief in mankind than in God. Yet even here th…
Belief, doubt and unbelief lie at the centre of all human experience, even for the Christian. St. Paul was able to speak of belief and unbelief in the same breath, in the form of a prayer. In our day, men are more likely to profess belief in mankind than in God. Yet even here th…
v.1. The beginnings of patristic literature.--v.2. The ante-Nicene literature after Irenaeus.--v.3. The Golden Age of Greek patristic literature from the Council of Nicaea to the Council of Chalcedon.