Comments on: A Quasten Tossed In http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2007/08/10/a-quasten-tossed-in/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:36:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roger Pearse http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2007/08/10/a-quasten-tossed-in/comment-page-1/#comment-218730 Roger Pearse Sat, 11 Aug 2007 16:13:56 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2007/08/10/a-quasten-tossed-in/#comment-218730 I'm about half way through. It really isn't as good as any of volumes 1-4. One chapter jumped about chronologically; I noticed mainly because they got to John Damascene, and then jumped back in the same chapter to the 5th century! I also noted that the section on John Damascene rushed over his works in two pages and then spent an interminable time 'assessing' his thought. The latter is an exercise that will be obsolete almost as soon as printed, while details of the works and their editions and translations would always be useful. I wish I knew Angelo di Berardino's address. I'd like to ask him to improve these rather. I’m about half way through. It really isn’t as good as any of volumes 1-4. One chapter jumped about chronologically; I noticed mainly because they got to John Damascene, and then jumped back in the same chapter to the 5th century! I also noted that the section on John Damascene rushed over his works in two pages and then spent an interminable time ‘assessing’ his thought. The latter is an exercise that will be obsolete almost as soon as printed, while details of the works and their editions and translations would always be useful.

I wish I knew Angelo di Berardino’s address. I’d like to ask him to improve these rather.

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