I took Fr. Bogdan's online 'how to read Patristics' class this summer from SVS. He is an excellent teacher, quite the contrast to too many of my seminary classes. He is a student of Golitzen, recognizes the contribution of Origen, and otherwise a "subtle" theologian. That is to say, Orthobro's will be disappointed that he is not a simplistic (metaphysical) literalist (i.e. I am sure he recognizes the threshold of a church is not a supernatural barrier to viruses), nor a true believer in "Holy Russia".... ;)
I suppose I should add that he is not a "progressive" in any sense either, not being interested in women's ordination/LBGTQwerty anthropological revisionism, etc. Orthobro types can (or at least should) listen to him, but not if they are looking for mere approval of their presuppositions, their anxious dialectical spirituality
I took Fr. Bogdan's online 'how to read Patristics' class this summer from SVS. He is an excellent teacher, quite the contrast to too many of my seminary classes. He is a student of Golitzen, recognizes the contribution of Origen, and otherwise a "subtle" theologian. That is to say, Orthobro's will be disappointed that he is not a simplistic (metaphysical) literalist (i.e. I am sure he recognizes the threshold of a church is not a supernatural barrier to viruses), nor a true believer in "Holy Russia".... ;)
ReplyDeleteI suppose I should add that he is not a "progressive" in any sense either, not being interested in women's ordination/LBGTQwerty anthropological revisionism, etc. Orthobro types can (or at least should) listen to him, but not if they are looking for mere approval of their presuppositions, their anxious dialectical spirituality
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