My Women in Christianity course has been going really well, honestly better than I could have hoped. Nevertheless, I still get nervous the night before each class! That is just how it is with a new class ( Read more... )

Theologian, philologist, teacher, writer, historian: What do I want to be?

Normally I don't do this, but I thought that I would cross-post this from my blog because it may be of interest to people that don't read my blog.

I just saw this book on Amazon: New Discoveries in the Divine Inspiration of the Bible, by Werner Adrain (Lake Mary, Fl.: Creation House, 2008). It's a load of numerological garbage (a la Michael Drosnin' ( Read more... )

Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life ( Read more... )

I've gone through both of my Teaching Assistant trainings now and have learned a lot. Although I am currently assigned to assist with New Testament, I may very well switch with my wife and be doing Dynamics of Spirituality instead (if her Hebrew class in fact gets moved to another time). I now know that I will actually be standing up in front of a ( Read more... )

All kinds of new heresies and theological errors are rampant today, a fact that I don't entirely know how to deal with as a Catholic theologian, other than to reject them, though I received my initial formation in heresy and error at Gonzaga, if you will. In the world of modern theology, heresy is very in-your-face, especially, it seems, whenever I ( Read more... )

Although you may not have heard of it, Catholic U is a fairly prestigious school in the world of Catholic theology. We remind ourselves of this whenever we think about the cost or the difficulty. It is very difficult, btw, far more so than NCC, WSU, or GU (at least for the programs that we were in there and are in here). To prove this, here are ( Read more... )

Originally, my last post about how frustrating it can be to be a moderate Catholic studying theology was not going to be about different groups in the Church, but rather just a lament that was going to lead to my posting Psalm 73, which I prayed on Monday and found very encouraging. But then I forgot all about that. So I wish to complete that post ( Read more... )

Sometimes studying theology as a Catholic in America in the 21st century can be frustrating, stressful, confusing, discouraging, and intimidating. Has it always been that way for theologians and students of theology? To some degree, I'm sure that the answer is yes, but I suspect that today is especially bad. Father Steve once told me that ( Read more... )

And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery. And another portent appeared in heaven; behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems upon ( Read more... )