Profile avatar
pappaspatristic.bsky.social
The PPI at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology supports patristic scholarship through conferences, lectures, summer programs, and publishing.
21 posts 90 followers 18 following
Regular Contributor

We are thrilled to announce that we will indeed be able to offer lodging to visiting graduate students. In addition to the $350 travel stipends, we hope this will allow PhD students and advanced Masters students to join us in Boston this April! Come learn about the poetry of the Church Fathers!

We are thrilled to invite you to a four-part graduate seminar on poetry in the Greek patristic tradition, including workshops on St Gregory Nazianzen and Romanos. Come join us in Boston this Spring! 🗓️ Wednesday, April 23, 2025 🗓️ Thursday, April 24, 2025 pappaspatristicinstitute.com/2025gradsemi...

January is the Month of the Church Fathers, at least according to St Gregory of Nyssa, commemorated today, January 10 www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/post/january...

Wishing all a blessed feast of the Nativity!

A modest resource for today's commemoration of the Prophet Haggai, a facing Greek-English version of the Septuagint text. The book of Haggai is extremely short and can be read in one quick sitting. 43e0a100-ec26-4541-811a-c59911a3353b.filesusr.com/ugd/38f972_9...

On this feast of St John Damascene, read 'On Theology' (CPG 8087.5) and 'How Man is the Image of God' (CPG 8087.4), two very short and frequently cited opuscula attributed to Saint John. www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/post/st-john...

An early Christmas gift (or Black Friday deal): all the Greek manuscripts of El Escorial 🇪🇸 are now available online! rbme.patrimonionacional.es/s/rbme/item?...

"The theology in our country is now divided into the period before Demetrios Koutroubis and the period after him." -Christos Yannaras Check out our latest post, 'Orthodox Ressourcement: Demetrios Koutroubis and the Renewal of Theology in Modern Greece' pappaspatristicinstitute.com/post/koutrou...

Interested in #dragons? 🐉 Check out CPG 8087, a homiletic fragment "On Dragons" attributed to St John of Damascus. There's a fragment on #Ghosts, too.

A reminder that the four volumes of the Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings (CEECW) are now available in paperback, with each volume under $40 -- and there is a 20% discount code until 31 December 2025, making them all under $32! www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Hades was destroyed. But its foundations were not sound to begin with.

Still time to get that submission in! www.patristics.org/annual-meeti...

In celebration and in honor of the feast, enter to win a free copy of our Director's 2023 monograph on St Gregory Palamas.

For the first time in English: a sermon by the Hesychast Patriarch of Constantinople, Kallistos I Kallistos, known from his Chapters on Prayer in the #Philokalia, was a disciple of St Gregory of Sinai and an important supporter of St Gregory Palamas www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/post/the-kin...

📢 This week! - Tuesday, March 26 - This week! 📢

Watch now, on our YouTube channel, the Fall lecture of Fr #Bogdan #Bucur, speaking about the competing theories of #Augustine and #Athanasius on theophany (the vision of God in the Old Testament): www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9jL... #Theophany

Watch now, on our YouTube channel: an interview with #David #Ford, of St Tikhon's Seminary. We spoke about his new volume of translations from SVSPress: Sermons from the Life of St #John #Chrysostom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxK5...

Cave #Chapel dedicated the Theotokos Myrtodiotissa, Saint Silouan, and Saint Thekla (#Monastery of Chrysopigi, #Crete). Many of the #caves in the area of the #monastery have been turned into small chapels at the instruction of #Saint Porphyrios.

Open Faculty Position Assistant Professor of Orthodox Theology, Hellenic College For details, follow this link: www.pappaspatristicinstitute.com/post/open-fa...