A monk was told that his father had died. He said to the messenger, “Do not blaspheme. My Father cannot die.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

But the work which most richly embroidered the gospel narratives and was destined to exert a tremendous influence on later Mariology was the Protoevangelium of James. Written for Mary’s glorification, this described her divinely ordered...

For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show for being so long in labor? Do not all who...

The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing...