From the City of Angels to the Angelicum

From the City of Angels to the Angelicum

Article by: Nathanael Anderson, Archdiocese of Washington

 

One of the obvious questions that has probably dawned on everyone who has read the Church Fathers comes when you are forced to ask yourself how they found time to weigh such abstruse theological questions or master the most arcane verses of holy writ. Some of their greatest works seem to have been written between their last homily and their next letter to a troublesome cleric. His Excellency Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, would be the last to compare himself to the giants on whose shoulders we all stand, but it is not an everyday occurrence to hear an episcopal lecture with a title like, “The One Who Is, The One Who Gives: Aquinas, Derrida, and the Dilemma of the Divine Generosity.”…

 

 

Read the full article Here, on page 16 of the Spring 2019 edition of the Angelicum Magazine