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Showing posts with label Fathers. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Psalm commentaries: A guide, Part II - Patristic commentaries

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Today to mark the start of Lent, I want to continue on my series on psalm commentaries, looking at the key Patristic commentaries available ...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Psalm commentaries: a guide (Pt 1)

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I realised that is a long time since I have updated my set of notes on the various psalm commentaries by the Fathers, Doctors and Saints tha...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Athanasius/4 - Why we should sing the psalms

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Athanasius insists that the psalms be sung, not said: But we must not omit to explain the reason why words of this kind should be not me...
Saturday, October 22, 2011

Commentaries on the psalms: Cassiodorus/1

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c12th English manuscript Cassiodorus was a contemporary of St Benedict's, and retired from public life to devote himself to the pres...
Thursday, September 8, 2011

St Basil the Great/3 - The psalm commentaries

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 c15th from Mt Athos In the last two posts on St Basil the Great, I've included some material on the saint's life and theolog...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

St Basil the Great/2 - theology

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 St Basil dictating his doctrine de Herrera, 1639 Continuing on from yesterday's post on the life of St Basil the Great, today s...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Commentaries on the psalms: St Basil the Great

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Another of the Fathers who wrote some helpful commentaries on the psalms is St Basil the Great. St Basil made important contributions to...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

St Augustine on the Psalms/2

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van Wassenhove, c1474 St Augustine had a great attachment to the psalms: he discovered them in the period between his conversion and ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Commentaries on the psalms: St Augustine/1

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 c6th fresco, the Lateran I want to continue my series providing some background on the key commentaries on the psalms by the Fathers, S...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Gentle Jesus meek and mild? St John Chrysostom on tough love

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I gave a little background yesterday on the great doctor of the Church St John Chrysostom and his commentaries on the psalms.  Today I want...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

St John Chrysostom, Commentary on the Psalms

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As well as some notes on selected psalms, such as those in the Mass propers, I plan to have a series of posts on this blog on the major pat...