Undusted Texts

In order to make this blog a better hub for all of my work, I have added a new page with links to my Publications and Unpublications , that is, draft papers.  Most of these publications are articles at the Homiletic & Pastoral Review ; a few are conference papers, which I have uploaded to Academia.edu.   I have also begun uploading some draft papers, or papers for which I don't think I'll ever find a publisher.  Each paper will be added to my Publications and Unpublications page once I have linked it. In my slow process of revising the layout of this blog, I have added this new page to the main navigation bar, and I have removed links to two prominent blog posts: "How to Discuss the Eastern Church: A Grammatical Primer," and the Table of Contents to my Church Documents Index.  The grammatical primer was written over a decade ago, and--though I have not yet taken time to review it--I assume I made some errors in it.  The Church Documents Index has not been ...

  Introduction It was long a tradition for unknown writers to sign a famous author's names to their works; sometimes, the work was half by the purported author anyway.  The homily translated below is nominally attributed to St. Augustine, but scholars reject it as spurious.  Some pieces of it can be traced to other writers: a large portion of §1 is copied from St. Gregory the Great's Homilies on the Gospels XXII.6 (PL76:1177B-D).  The editor of the Latin text claims portions of §§2-3 are taken, respectively, from the homilies on Pascha and on the Ascension by a certain Eusebius, but I have not yet located the source.   Sermon CLX On Pascha II The Biting and Slaying of Hell   The Passion or resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, beloved brethren, all of the volumes of the Old Testament spoke of beforehand in many ways, so that, even through the mouth of David the prophet, the Holy Spirit clearly shows this, ...