Research

In order to be able to read saint John Chrysostom’s writings in classical Greek, I have to spend some time refreshing my knowledge of that language.
Even though I studied Latin in high school for 6 years, and continued to read Latin texts during my philosophy and theology studies (not to mention all the liturgical texts and [...]

I have decided to focus on Saint John Chrysostom, a Church Father well known for his communication skills; the most famous theologian, exegete, preacher and writer of the school of Antioch.
It is very important at this stage of the game to further develop my proposal. What is going to be my research angle? Which questions am [...]

Today, I wrote a three page paper on all the possible research topics for my study of the communication strategies of the Church Fathers. I started with common notions from the world of Social Communications to see how we can apply these modern notions to these ancient authors.
Obviously, the Church Fathers weren’t aware of these modern [...]

This week, I am beginning preliminary research on a doctoral dissertation about the communication strategies of the Church Fathers. I got the idea to start this research while I was in Rome last week for the doctoral defense of a good friend and fellow priest, Michel Remery.
This completely revived my interest to continue working on a [...]