Tag: Patristic

  • Is Patristic Exegesis Still Usable?

    In a recent article discussing John Keble’s defense of patristic exegesis, Ephraim Radner suggests that in our own post-modern age, with its professed love of diversity, its penchant for popularized exoticism, and its interest in religious or “spiritual” experience, early Christian ascetical practices and the Fathers’ non-historical mode of scriptural

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  • A Patristic Critique of Political Economy

    Eugene McCarraher writes in his The Enchantments of Mammon as if he has our harried last-minute Christmas shopping in mind: The grotesque ontology of scarcity and money, the tawdry humanism of acquisitiveness and conflict, the reduction of rationality to the mercenary principles of pecuniary reason—this ensemble of falsehoods that compromise the foundation

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