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BOOK PICK: Concise and easy to read, Father Aidan Nichols’ latest book gives an excellent overview of 16 giants of the early Church, with topics of thought ranging from Scripture to volcanoes.
The Singing Masters
Church Fathers From Greek East and Latin West
By Father Aidan Nichols, OP
Ignatius, 2023
$19.95, 343 pages
To order: ignatius.com
Dominican Father Aidan Nichols puts “scholarly” in the phrase “scholarly Dominican” as few others of his order today. The author of more than 45 books on Scripture, Church history and Catholic theology, he offers a handy introduction to patristics with his latest from Ignatius Press: The Singing Masters: Church Fathers From Greek East and Latin West.
Arranged in the form of 16 “vignettes” that treat eight Eastern and eight Western fathers, Father Nichols has “selected for treatment those patristic figures who have the best claim to the attention of modern theology students, or who were in other ways the most influential in Church tradition.”
The focus is patristic theology rather than spirituality. Monastic figures like Cassian or Benedict don’t feature, but rather “those figures who had contributed most effectively to the contemporary and subsequent doctrinal consciousness of the Church,” as Father Nichols noted in an interview on this book. These are the Fathers who would be most influential for dogmatic theology, which “explores the heartland of divine revelation: the saving outreach of the Father through his consubstantial Son, humanized as Jesus Christ, who by their common Spirit enters into our lives through the instrumentality of the Church.”
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The Singing Masters
Church Fathers From Greek East and Latin West
By Father Aidan Nichols, OP
Ignatius, 2023
$19.95, 343 pages
To order: ignatius.com
Dominican Father Aidan Nichols puts “scholarly” in the phrase “scholarly Dominican” as few others of his order today. The author of more than 45 books on Scripture, Church history and Catholic theology, he offers a handy introduction to patristics with his latest from Ignatius Press: The Singing Masters: Church Fathers From Greek East and Latin West.
Arranged in the form of 16 “vignettes” that treat eight Eastern and eight Western fathers, Father Nichols has “selected for treatment those patristic figures who have the best claim to the attention of modern theology students, or who were in other ways the most influential in Church tradition.”
The focus is patristic theology rather than spirituality. Monastic figures like Cassian or Benedict don’t feature, but rather “those figures who had contributed most effectively to the contemporary and subsequent doctrinal consciousness of the Church,” as Father Nichols noted in an interview on this book. These are the Fathers who would be most influential for dogmatic theology, which “explores the heartland of divine revelation: the saving outreach of the Father through his consubstantial Son, humanized as Jesus Christ, who by their common Spirit enters into our lives through the instrumentality of the Church.”
Continued below.
‘The Singing Masters’: A New Introduction to the Church Fathers
BOOK PICK: Concise and easy to read, Father Aidan Nichols’ latest book gives an excellent overview of 16 giants of the early Church, with topics of thought ranging from Scripture to volcanoes.
