Augustine in Ottoman Greece and Tsarist Russia

P & D also show that Augustine continued to be held as an authority in the Eastern churches throughout the Ottoman empire and in Russia.  They point out that St. Nicodemus the Hagiorite “included Augustine’s name among the saints to be commemorated on June 15, when he completed his monumental revision of the Synaxarion (a [...]

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Augustine in Late Byzantium

I’ve already blogged on Photius’ appreciation of Augustine, as well as Michael Palaiologos’ desire to Westernize the Byzantine Church.  In the same article Papanikolaou and Demacopoulos also show that Augustine was read on Mt. Athos and held as an authority by Mark of Ephesus.  P & D write:
Mark of Ephesus, the fifteenth-century leader of the [...]

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Been A While

So this blog has been uber slow I guess.  This is probably because I have a job now.  I’ve also been working on a few larger projects that should appear on Basilica in a bit.  Maybe after this week I can post some more stuff on Augustine.
For now though, let me just say that Faris [...]

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Michael VIII Palaiologos

In their survey of Augustine and Byzantium, Papanikolaou and Demacopoulos give a handy sketch of Emperor Michael VIII.  Here’s what they have to say:
Michael assumed the throne of the Empire of Nicaea in 1261 and of Byzantium (upon his successful capture of Constantinople) in 1263.  He held that position until his death in 1282.  As [...]

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Augustine and Photius

Papanikolaou and Demacopoulos continue with their survey of Augustine’s role in the East.  They move to the high point of controversy, with Photius and the filioque:
There may be no better example of the Byzantine Church’s high regard for Augustine than Photius’ defense of him in the midst of the filioque controversy.  Photius entered the trinitarian [...]

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So Thomas

Would you say that Hart’s scholarship on Augustine is itself proof of simul iustus et peccator (as he can be so good yet so horrible all in the same article)?
I really love all the ontology stuff, but right there at the beginning he has to say Augustine had a morbid and distorted reading of Paul [...]

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Fun Fun

I snuck a peek at Hart’s article in the Orthodox Readings of Augustine book.  It is my intent to read each of the articles, and so to simply read the book in the order it presents itself, but I couldn’t resist looking over Hart’s.  I was happy, perhaps morbidly so, to see a few page-length [...]

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Augustine in Byzantium

I’ve been excitedly reading through Orthodox Readings of Augustine.  I attended the conference a year and a half ago, but I have to confess, I did not know much of what I was listening to.  I’ve had time to catch up between then and now, and I can see that these papers are brilliant and [...]

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Boom Baby!

Look on the bright side guys, we won’t be trimming down on government intrusion or war in the Middle East any time soon.
It’s called change, Joel.  Totally different stuff man.

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Shakespeare and Richard Hooker

This is a fine article on the parallels between Hooker’s Laws and Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew.

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