I’m reading through the “deliverance” section of The Oxford Book of Prayer this week and came across this prayer by the Venerable Bede. Join Bede and I in praying this for our world: O God that art the only hope of the world, The only refuge for unhappy men, Abiding in the faithfulness of heaven.Continue reading “Bede Prays for Rescue”
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MHT: Medieval and Reformation History
This post is part of an ongoing series reflecting on the appropriate approach to and method for historical theology. In the medieval period, conceptions of the changelessness of the Church solidified through the works of Bernard of Clairvaux, the Venerable Bede, Dante, and Otto of Freising.[6] Rome—which was generally not thought of as “fallen” untilContinue reading “MHT: Medieval and Reformation History”
Thinking with the Early Middle Ages
“When the thinker thinks rightly, he follows God step by step; he does not follow his own vain fallacy.”1 Studying the Middle Ages is a complex process, not only for the plethora of information one must process in order to have a halfway-informed perspective into the period, but also for the multitude of ways inContinue reading “Thinking with the Early Middle Ages”
Pursuing Veritas 