Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.
February 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Hello Bluesky! We are the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship, which promotes the study of the patristic age, the Middle Ages, and the early modern era from the perspective of gender studies, women's studies, and feminist studies.
People: I just don’t see how these patristic trinitarian & christological controversies are relevant TODAY.
Also people: I mean why couldn’t Jesus be AI?
Also people: I mean why couldn’t Jesus be AI?
December 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
People: I just don’t see how these patristic trinitarian & christological controversies are relevant TODAY.
Also people: I mean why couldn’t Jesus be AI?
Also people: I mean why couldn’t Jesus be AI?
Next up: the Patristic era (around about 100-700 AD, depending on how you count it)
October 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Next up: the Patristic era (around about 100-700 AD, depending on how you count it)
Almost missed posting for #WomensHistoryMonth!
I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World.
The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity.
Buy at your fave bookshop!
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...
I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World.
The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity.
Buy at your fave bookshop!
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...
March 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Almost missed posting for #WomensHistoryMonth!
I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World.
The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity.
Buy at your fave bookshop!
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...
I wrote (with Lynn Cohick) Christian Women in the Patristic World.
The thesis: women contributed substantially to the development of theology and practice in early Christianity.
Buy at your fave bookshop!
www.bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/christ...
If you’re “traditional” and you’re mad about a biblical-patristic reading of Christian teaching on poverty from the pope, which tradition do you even seriously mean?
October 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re “traditional” and you’re mad about a biblical-patristic reading of Christian teaching on poverty from the pope, which tradition do you even seriously mean?
I wonder if the great churches of the patristic era changed their liturgy times for chariot races.
February 9, 2026 at 12:53 AM
I wonder if the great churches of the patristic era changed their liturgy times for chariot races.
brb, swapping all my references from 'patristic' to 'dudely'
January 16, 2024 at 2:12 PM
brb, swapping all my references from 'patristic' to 'dudely'
This is fun tho what would various Patristic and medieval theologians’ preferred digital communications media have been
RIP Augustine, you would have loved poasting.
People get buried with Homer in Late Antiquity because, like, where you gonna put all 5,025,000 words we have from Augustine. Just way too much papyrus to fit in one sarcophagus.
May 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
This is fun tho what would various Patristic and medieval theologians’ preferred digital communications media have been
Yeah. “A fool begat… ?” And my patristic dictionary is at the office. Boo.
December 16, 2024 at 11:31 PM
Yeah. “A fool begat… ?” And my patristic dictionary is at the office. Boo.
HMM so apparently there's a patristic account of the harrowing of hell in which the first person Christ meets is Simeon, so there might be a basis....
(there are several formal saints who DO predecease Christ tho - Joseph, John the Baptist, the Holy Innocents...)
(there are several formal saints who DO predecease Christ tho - Joseph, John the Baptist, the Holy Innocents...)
February 3, 2026 at 9:53 PM
HMM so apparently there's a patristic account of the harrowing of hell in which the first person Christ meets is Simeon, so there might be a basis....
(there are several formal saints who DO predecease Christ tho - Joseph, John the Baptist, the Holy Innocents...)
(there are several formal saints who DO predecease Christ tho - Joseph, John the Baptist, the Holy Innocents...)
My reflections on Patristics in Canada - just out in SR! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Expanding Patristic perspectives: Thinking with 50 years of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies/Association Canadienne des Études Patristiques - Annette Yoshiko Reed, 2025
Why would anyone wish to found a new society dedicated to Patristics in the 1970s? In conventional historiographies of Religious Studies, the late 20th century ...
journals.sagepub.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My reflections on Patristics in Canada - just out in SR! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Many medieval sermons & collections were also made by stitching together selections from patristic authors like Augustine, to repurpose them, pass them off as patristic works, or otherwise lend legitimacy to the compositions. How does this fit into the canon & reception of Augustine's works?
June 15, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Many medieval sermons & collections were also made by stitching together selections from patristic authors like Augustine, to repurpose them, pass them off as patristic works, or otherwise lend legitimacy to the compositions. How does this fit into the canon & reception of Augustine's works?
My late antiquity heads are gunna really love this one 📕
Which Patristic-Era Thinker Are You? | Constellation Quiz — theodramatist
Thirty questions about how you pray, argue, and read Scripture — plotted against thirty-five thinkers from Philo to John of Damascus and the heretics between.
www.theodramatist.com
May 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
My late antiquity heads are gunna really love this one 📕
FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕June 20th 2️⃣🎧
PATRISTIC – Catechesis 🇮🇹💠
Debut full-length album from Rome, Italian Blackened Death Metal outfit 💠
BC➡️patristic.bandcamp.com/album/catech...💠
#Patristic #Catechesis #BlackenedDeathMetal #ItalianMetal #ClawHammerPR #Willowtip #FFFJun20 #KMäN
PATRISTIC – Catechesis 🇮🇹💠
Debut full-length album from Rome, Italian Blackened Death Metal outfit 💠
BC➡️patristic.bandcamp.com/album/catech...💠
#Patristic #Catechesis #BlackenedDeathMetal #ItalianMetal #ClawHammerPR #Willowtip #FFFJun20 #KMäN
June 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
FULL FORCE FRIDAY:🆕June 20th 2️⃣🎧
PATRISTIC – Catechesis 🇮🇹💠
Debut full-length album from Rome, Italian Blackened Death Metal outfit 💠
BC➡️patristic.bandcamp.com/album/catech...💠
#Patristic #Catechesis #BlackenedDeathMetal #ItalianMetal #ClawHammerPR #Willowtip #FFFJun20 #KMäN
PATRISTIC – Catechesis 🇮🇹💠
Debut full-length album from Rome, Italian Blackened Death Metal outfit 💠
BC➡️patristic.bandcamp.com/album/catech...💠
#Patristic #Catechesis #BlackenedDeathMetal #ItalianMetal #ClawHammerPR #Willowtip #FFFJun20 #KMäN
Maybe some seminaries want some background music for their exams in church history / doctrine. Patristic, bringing in that dissodeath back in June. (On Willowtip, so you know it’s good).
Catechesis, by Patristic
6 track album
patristic.bandcamp.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Maybe some seminaries want some background music for their exams in church history / doctrine. Patristic, bringing in that dissodeath back in June. (On Willowtip, so you know it’s good).
Canadian Society for Patristic Studies Annual Meeting is May 26-28, is fully hybrid, and a virtual registration is just $25 Canadian---what's not to love?
cspsacep.ca/reunion-meet...
cspsacep.ca/reunion-meet...
Réunion/Meeting
The 51st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies will take place from May 26–28, 2026, at St. Augustine’s Seminary on the University of Toronto, Ontario. —La 51e rencontre…
cspsacep.ca
May 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Canadian Society for Patristic Studies Annual Meeting is May 26-28, is fully hybrid, and a virtual registration is just $25 Canadian---what's not to love?
cspsacep.ca/reunion-meet...
cspsacep.ca/reunion-meet...
19/ Soldatov comments that "the centre of the current preaching and ideology of the Russian Orthodox Church is not the Gospel, not the Patristic tradition, not the fulfillment of the commandments,…
November 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM
19/ Soldatov comments that "the centre of the current preaching and ideology of the Russian Orthodox Church is not the Gospel, not the Patristic tradition, not the fulfillment of the commandments,…
mary as the ark and mary as the burning bush are two of my favorite marian patristic motifs
September 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
mary as the ark and mary as the burning bush are two of my favorite marian patristic motifs
‘THE FATHERS ON THE FUTURE’—About 30% history and patristic eschatology, 20% systematic and practical theology, and 50% biblical theology, exposition, and exegesis.
November 29, 2024 at 2:45 AM
‘THE FATHERS ON THE FUTURE’—About 30% history and patristic eschatology, 20% systematic and practical theology, and 50% biblical theology, exposition, and exegesis.
I was flipping through a book of letters by a Korean Buddhist nun (Kim Iryŏp [1896–1971]) and ran into this discussion of her apostasy from Christianity I was fascinated by how clearly yet unintentionally it shows the difference between patristic/mystical theology and evangelicalism
November 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I was flipping through a book of letters by a Korean Buddhist nun (Kim Iryŏp [1896–1971]) and ran into this discussion of her apostasy from Christianity I was fascinated by how clearly yet unintentionally it shows the difference between patristic/mystical theology and evangelicalism
The campus rabbi and I decided to meet for a weekly text study during the term and had our first session today. We’re reading through one or two verses of Song of Songs each week and using both midrash and patristic/medieval allegorical commentaries. It’s so fun! 🕯️
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
The campus rabbi and I decided to meet for a weekly text study during the term and had our first session today. We’re reading through one or two verses of Song of Songs each week and using both midrash and patristic/medieval allegorical commentaries. It’s so fun! 🕯️
The most conservative versions of Catholicism still preach that people dedicating themselves to a religious life must sell practically all of their possessions and give the money to the church as well as welcoming the foreigner according to patristic (early church father) values.
February 23, 2026 at 12:20 PM
The most conservative versions of Catholicism still preach that people dedicating themselves to a religious life must sell practically all of their possessions and give the money to the church as well as welcoming the foreigner according to patristic (early church father) values.