Sunday, December 18, 2005
(12:35 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Sunday Church Fathers Blogging
If one were to rank the church fathers I have read by "coolness," I think one would end up with a list something like this:- Origen
- Irenaeus
Gregory of Nyssa (tie) - Clement of Alexandria
I still haven't read nearly all of what's available, however. This study has only taken me up to the end of Arianism -- there's all that delightful parsing out of the relation between the human and the divine in Christ that I haven't yet touched on, really. Those controversies always struck me as the most boring -- probably because these supposedly vile heresies keep looking more and more like orthodoxy. It was a lot more interesting back in the days when heretics were coming up with some seriously off-the-wall shit, like Gnosticism. We need to get back to that. Perhaps we at The Weblog could start a radical new heresy, if we haven't already.
