This past semester I had the happy duty of reading through a Reformation treatise on the Eucharist, penned by the sixteenth-century Lutheran pastor, Joachim Westphal. I chose this for my student, a Lutheran who took to it right away, as it was one of hundreds upon hundreds (doubtless thousands) of late Renaissance and Reformation texts still awaiting translation into English. To date, her translation runs 50 pages and 18,000 words. I’m rather pleased with her. She’s the only student in my 25+ years at the university level I have ever given an A+ to, as I…
Dr. Cyril Jenkins interviewed Fr. Daniel Greeson about the intellectual legacy and work of Stratford Caldecott. The conversation was wide ranging but definitely worth your time!
Dillon, one of my students from this fall semester, took an upper division course on the history of modernity in Europe. It was a survey class from the beginning of the seventeenth century through World War I. In the course of the semester, I found him to be a politically engaged young man, who supported Black Lives Matter and urged me to listen to songs from Catch 22’s album Permanent Revolution. I was willing to oblige, and we had several interesting discussions by email and face to face. He is an individual genuinely interested in ideas…
