Saturday, October 11, 2008

Mining the rich tradition of the Ancient Fathers

Blogging is an incredibly immediate medium (if those two are allowed to go together). I love opening up my bookmarks or feed to see what pearls of wisdom and learning the blogging Fathers have dispensed for the day. Good blogs really do shape your thoughts. And yet I know that even if I recommend a blog to someone, it is highly unlikely that they will delve into the archives, to learn from the ancient blogging traditions. So in the spirit of church history, and preserving the memory of those who wrote and thought and wrestled so many weeks before us, Saturday will from henceforth be archive day. We will be mining the rich seam of thinking- pre 2008.


First up is the venerable Halden Doerge, with his mysterious work inhabitatio dei

Back in October 2006 Halden was musing on his relationship to evangelicalism


using Barth to reflect on the misery of starting theology and liturgy with man


and swimming joyfully in Von Balthasars exposition of divine love and judgement

4 comments:

byron smith said...

Patrogistics? Patrilogistics? Perhaps there are the blogging apostles and the sub-apostolic bloggers...

Matthew Moffitt said...

Who was it that said 'tradition gives a voice to the largest silent majority - the dead'?

Mike W said...

Chesterton I think, but I'm not sure. Do archives count as death?

Patblogdgery? Ante, Nice and Posting Nice Fathers?

Matthew Moffitt said...

PostY2K Fathers?