You are welcome! And good question. In my view, one of the benefits of reading the fathers is that they inhabit a world with a different set of assumptions and social imagination. So you end up reading a book like On the Incarnation and see how similar it is to us; yet on reflection, you begin to see how his patterns of thought, of spiri…
You are welcome! And good question. In my view, one of the benefits of reading the fathers is that they inhabit a world with a different set of assumptions and social imagination. So you end up reading a book like On the Incarnation and see how similar it is to us; yet on reflection, you begin to see how his patterns of thought, of spirituality, and doctrine flow from different springs of reasoning than ours do. This, I think, is a key for how reading the fathers can help shake us out of our biases and more clearly see things that we might not otherwise see.
You are welcome! And good question. In my view, one of the benefits of reading the fathers is that they inhabit a world with a different set of assumptions and social imagination. So you end up reading a book like On the Incarnation and see how similar it is to us; yet on reflection, you begin to see how his patterns of thought, of spirituality, and doctrine flow from different springs of reasoning than ours do. This, I think, is a key for how reading the fathers can help shake us out of our biases and more clearly see things that we might not otherwise see.