Latin Take on Deification

This is it. Whatever deification means, sacred scripture, the theological tradition, and the witness of the mystics are clear: we are oned with Christ's humanity and thereby participate in His own hypostatic union. https://t.co/lJbEZ8fani

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 2, 2022

The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics

Today's reading: pic.twitter.com/i6bKqY7605

— Timothy Troutner (@troutsky_) June 29, 2022

OUP: The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics: Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus by Johannes Zachhuber

Debating "Ensoulment"

Asked about President Biden and abortion last week, @WashArchbishop Cardinal Gregory said that theologians are debating when conception occurs.
So we asked the National Catholic Bioethics Center to explain it to us. https://t.co/He7d2s92LL

— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) September 13, 2021

Budapest Eucharist Conference

Very excited for this pic.twitter.com/855Z0Gi7a8

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) August 27, 2021

Projecting unto St. Joseph

Whet your political-theological appetite: Joseph is traditionally opposed to Herod, as the Just Man is opposed to the Tyrant; Joseph reveals fatherhood as a fundamental political and spiritual form, passing on the line of David beyond biological descent.

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) June 16, 2021

What do we know of the virtues or example of St. Joseph? Nothing. We can know something about the virtues of Christ by participating in Him; what knowledge can we have of St. Joseph, about whom (and the Theotokos as well) so little was written, even if one considers the apocrypha. One can only project what thinks are the virtues of a man and of a woman unto them, and what if one's understanding of masculine and feminine excellences are incorrect? It becomes a form of creating a false authority to justify one's assumptions - a form of circular reasoning.

Thomas Pröpper

How does #God reveal 'himself' in #freedom and #autonomy of the human person? Thomas #Pröpper wrestled with this question on the highest intellectual niveau - he is almost unknown among US theologians. Their loss. #theology #philosophy pic.twitter.com/oCHpmCLLb2

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) May 29, 2021

Patristic and Scholastic Theology and Their Environment

Book Review: "Patristic and Scholastic Theology and Their Environment" by Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktoshttps://t.co/NLB15ff4lg pic.twitter.com/e0164c0W9q

— Mystagogy Resource Center (@mystagogy1) May 14, 2021

Paul J. Griffiths, Regret

German theologians do not even know who #Griffith is rather read open theism articles from the 1980s. #German #theology #regret https://t.co/7qp2gyx9Jo

— Ulrich L. Lehner (@ulrichlehner) February 6, 2021

This. https://t.co/GnN82Wpo91

— Kyle (@home_grown_sanc) February 6, 2021

Katherine Sonderegger on the Inner Life of God

Many thanks to all who were able to join us yesterday for our panel discussion with Katherine Sonderegger. We really enjoyed hosting this lovely event, featuring @dannyhills33, @bethfelkerjones, @FredFredSanders, and @klh_sanders.

Here's the video: https://t.co/yIFdw4Zvjn

— Henry Center (@henry_center) January 29, 2021

The Rev'd Dr. Andrew Louth, "The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology"

The Dead End of the Episcopalian Church

Christian theology people, I thoroughly recommend listening to this talk by Professor Katherine Sonderegger on the Holy Trinity: Processions and Persons. Ever wondered what a doctrine of the Trinity might look like of it jumped off from Leviticus? Find it here! https://t.co/utyY9974eK

— Andrew Davison (@AP_Davison) January 27, 2021

I'm pleased to say that you can follow Professor Sonderegger's talk online here, both live and afterwards: https://t.co/nhyPy5ebaS https://t.co/n8OJuewRJz

— Andrew Davison (@AP_Davison) January 27, 2021

Does God Make Us Precious?

Or is our "worth" or goodness a result of God's creative act?

We possess a great wealth that depends on what we are: the life we have received, the good within us, the indelible beauty God has given us by making us in his image. All these things make each of us precious in his eyes, each one of us is priceless and unique in history.

— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 12, 2021

Thomas Pfau, "From Genealogy to a Hermeneutics of Tradition"

“Modern theology has often been receptive to the siren call of genealogical thinking, as became once again apparent in the early stages of Vatican II”

Thomas Pfau at ⁦@GenofMod⁩ https://t.co/YG9XFtIMmB

— Josh Hochschild (@JoshHochschild) January 5, 2021

Genealogies of Modernity

An Upcoming Lecture by Andrew Louth

Upcoming lecture by Andrew Louth: "The Necessity of Platonism for Christian Theology"

(...I mean, what else?)https://t.co/Xf4EM1d84M

— Jonathan Greig (@jabgreig) January 5, 2021

Dr. Matthew Levering

Today's featured theologian is Matthew Levering

"The goal is to receive the Christian faith in its wholeness, to be united to the saints and teachers who have come before, and to articulate the Christological unity of the whole"https://t.co/vFWRd9DAgz pic.twitter.com/aeMBhcAF8u

— Nijay K Gupta (@NijayKGupta) December 7, 2020

Crux Sola

Fr. Martin Thorton

"Parish Prayer Life":
An introduction to the life and parochial theology of Martin Thornton

Fr Matthew Dallman's talk for @TowersofFaith

Video here: https://t.co/ZfmuzAaUN0
More info here:https://t.co/Z2DvGpZWFL

— Akenside Institute for English Spirituality (@EngSpirituality) November 6, 2020

How Theology Should Be Done?

1) Be careful what you wish for

2) If done well, though, this would absolutely slap

3) I am v sympathetic to Stump’s view that Aquinas saw his Scriptural commentaries as the pinnacle of his theology—from first to last, a Master of the Sacred Page https://t.co/pKiCqWQj5Q

— Fr. David Paternostro, SJ (@DavidPaternostr) October 7, 2020

Eastern Catholic Theology in Action

NLM

Sure

But what future for academic theology in an age of collapse?

"Like Narcissus, such a person can pursue the discipline of theology only to discover that they have not found God, but an image of themselves reflected in a cultural mirror."

a #mustread from @ccpecknold https://t.co/bTRRBhNRhH

— stephen brannon (@stephenbrannon_) August 27, 2020

Plotinus as Progress

All this suggests that a Trinitarian ontology will naturally tend to revise Aristotle. Perhaps even more than Aquinas did, though he did revise Aristotelian metaphysics both neoplatonically and for doctrinal reasons. (As neo-Thomism ignores.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

For Plato and Plotinus there are five genres of being, rest, motion, same and other that are really more like transcendentals. In fully real intelligible reality they fully coincide. In material reality they more tend to exclude each other and come in degrees.

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020

Plotinus also questions Aristotle’s distinction of action and making. For him even action as thought moves, goes out from itself, emanates. Augustine and Aquinas’s thought on verbum is jn this lineage. (Lonergan totally wrong here.)

— john milbank (@johnmilbank3) July 26, 2020