Patristics Carnival XXII- April, 2009

Well, here is the new Carnival for April, 2009. Enjoy!

New Under the Tent: New Patristic Blogs And Announcements.

Kevin on the Courting the Mystery blog publishes the abstracts for the Biblical Interpretation in Early Christianity sessions at the SBL in Rome.

Front Gate: Introductions to the Fathers

Nothing new this month.

The Midway: Articles on the Fathers

Jonathon Harmon on The Sunday Page posts a paper arguing for a non-hierarchical model of St. Ignatius of Antioch.

Polycarp on The Church of Jesus Christ blog continues his Creed series with Arius' creed, the creed from the Council of Serdica. He also discusses the views of Dionysius of Rome on three hyposteseis and discusses Melito of Sardis on the subject of the deliverance of humanity by Christ. He also is starting a page on Fourth Century Christianity

Stacey on the Almost There blog examines John Calvin's claims about the non-Catholic nature of the Fathers and that they supported his view of the Eucharist.

Kevin Edgecomb on the biblicalia blog discusses the appeal of St Isaac the Syrian and his (Orthodox) audience.

Ken Silva on the Apprising Ministries blog considers Roman Catholic claims about actual church history.

Fr. Stavrophoremonk Symeon in the Hermitage Journal encourages Orthodox readers to truly turn to the Fathers. This is pretty hard-core Orthodoxy, so read with caution.

Felix Culpa on the Ora et Labora blog features a translation of an interview with Aleksei Ivanovich Siderov, a leading Russion patrologist.

Scot McKnight on the beliefnet Jesus Creed blog discusses Justin Martyr's and Irenaeus' view of Genesis.

Seumus McDonald on the Compliant Subversity blog reflects on patristic exegesis and the Trinitarian debates of the fourth and fifth centuries.

Thomas on the Faith and Reason blog completes his series on St. Ignatius of Antioch's letters with a discussion of his letter to Polycarp. Stay tuned for his series on Polycarp.

Eric on the Christian Reader blog discusses Chuck Colson's call to return to doctrine and the resulting critique that we should have 'no creed but Jesus Christ'.

Willing Catholic Martyr on the Pillar and Foundation blog considers the biblical foundations of the Trinity.

Pope St. Felix III (no less) on the forChrist-contra mundum blog considers (Protestant) arguments against the catholicity of early Christianity.

JohnFH on the Ancient Hebrew Poetry blog (re-)considers the canon, especially in light of patristic testimony. He also discusses Clement and his perspective on Paul.

Andrea Elizabeth on the Words, Words, Words blog considers Eriugena, St. Dionysius and Neoplatonism. She continues her reflections in a follow-up post.

CD-Host on the Church Discipline blog detects a latent Arianism implied in writers taking a complementarian position about the position of women in the Church.

Paul Marks on the Samizdata.net blog recommends the Emperor Valentinian I as a father of the West. Well, perhaps not a Church Father, but this entry includes an interesting discussion of Valentinian's eccesiastical policy as compared to Constantine.

C. Michael Patton on the Parchment and Pen blog winds up a series on sola scriptura including patristics citations backing up his suggestion that the doctrine of sola scriptura existed in seed form in many Fathers.

Roger Pearse on his self-named blog discusses the Coptic Apocalypse of Daniel and follows up with another post, calls attention to a project to publish manuscripts online, discusses the challenges that rare events (such as the Resurrection) gives to historians, encourages people to explore strange new worlds through language study, and discusses another resource for putting up documentary papyrus and inscriptions online.

The Marketplace: Book Reviews (and other media)

Hollils Blair on his self-named blog discusses the Biblia Patristica online database.

Mike Aquilina on The Way of the Fathers blog announces his new book on reading the Psalms with the Fathers,

Kevin on the After Existentialism, Light blog reviews Everett Fergusson's book, Baptism in the Early Church.

Kevin on the Courting the Mystery blog lists the journals which feature patristics articles and have RSS feeds.

Exhibition Place: Biographies of the Fathers

Nothing new this month.

The Rodeo: Patristic catenae

Godismyjudge on the Arminian Chronicles blog provides a patristic catena on free-will and God's foreknowledge.

The Foreign Exchange Tent: Translations and Summaries

Polycarp on The Church of Jesus Christ begins a translation of the Exposition of Faith, commonly attributed to St. Athanasius, but now attributed to Marcellus of Ancyra.

The Talmudic Tabernacle: Christianity and Judaism in the Ancient World

Nothing this month.

The Apocryphal Aisle: Christian Apocrypha

Roger Pearse on his self-named blog discusses the Gospel of Judas, Coptic Paul and the Greek Exodus, announces the discovery of the Coptic Paul, analyses 'hip' gnosis and its connection to the ancient variety.

April DeConick on The Forbidden Gospels discusses the Name and how the Gnostics use the term, discusses Abrasax.

That's it for the month. Watch for next month's carnival.

Peace,
Phil