I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Reader Mail: Origen
October 23, 2008
Amy Welborn writes in with a comment on this article:
Your correspondent might want to consider that Pope Benedict included Origen in his “Early Church Fathers” Wednesday General Audience catechesis:
Very true! Indeed, Pope Benedict XVI had quite a lot of favourable things to say about Origen in the speech quoted at the link Mrs. Welborn provides above. Notably, the Pope remarks that “Origen of Alexandria truly was a figure crucial to the whole development of Christian thought. He gathered up the legacy of Clement of Alexandria, on whom we meditated last Wednesday, and launched it for the future in a way so innovative that he impressed an irreversible turning point on the development of Christian thought.”
Indeed, Origen’s is an excellent example to raise when one desires to speak of Christian scholarship, especially pertaining to Scripture. Origen’s methodology was sound and comprehensive — not only did he read the Bible in interlinear and transliterated arrangements, but he did so with reference to extant commentaries of the day, including historical and traditional references…and ordered all his study toward the preaching and telling of the Bible in a public setting. As a theologian, then, Origen was not only a man caught up in his studies, but also possessed of the evangelical zeal.
So we all should be, I think.
Origen on the Gospel of John
October 14, 2008
Though it confirms the obvious, it never hurts to reflect that the more one explores early Christianity, the more one will find that the teachings and traditions of the early Church can only lead one in a single direction: toward Catholicism.
As anyone who has studied the New Testament or the Gospel of John knows, modern Biblical scholars love to quote the early Church Father Clement of Alexandria’s comment that the Gospel of John is a “spiritual Gospel.” It is interesting that you never see the similar comments of the great biblicist, Origen, who had this to say:
“No one can grasp the meaning of the Gospel (of John) unless he has rested on the breast of Jesus, and unless he has received from Him Mary, who becomes his mother also.” (Origen, Commentary on John, 1:6)
All truth, in and outside of Scripture, is found in the Church, and the degree to which we part with Rome is the degree to which we part from the fullest revelation of Christ.
Update: Welcome, Way of the Fathers readers!
