http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2008/03/14/daley-dose/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:18:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2008/03/14/daley-dose/comment-page-1/#comment-631114 blackhaw Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:04:06 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2008/03/14/daley-dose/#comment-631114 As a fan of both Daley and of the Theologian I really liked this edition to the early Church Fathers series. I liked that he included not only Gregory's orations and a ffew select letters but also some of his poetry. I am doing a paper for Dr. Craig Blaising here at school about some of his poetry. I think it is interesting how his theological poems were used for teaching. Daley makes a comment that the subjects poemata arcana correspond (at least roughly) to Origen's Rule of Faith in the Preface to his de Principiis. Since they were used for teaching it makes sense. And I think it is an interesting link of how early Christians educated children and new converts and for studies on the 'rule of faith.' I had always assummed (I do not know why) that the use of the 'rule of faith' ended once there were creeds (even though in a sense it still being used today). But now I think that thought was too simplisitc. As a fan of both Daley and of the Theologian I really liked this edition to the early Church Fathers series. I liked that he included not only Gregory’s orations and a ffew select letters but also some of his poetry. I am doing a paper for Dr. Craig Blaising here at school about some of his poetry. I think it is interesting how his theological poems were used for teaching. Daley makes a comment that the subjects poemata arcana correspond (at least roughly) to Origen’s Rule of Faith in the Preface to his de Principiis. Since they were used for teaching it makes sense. And I think it is an interesting link of how early Christians educated children and new converts and for studies on the ‘rule of faith.’ I had always assummed (I do not know why) that the use of the ‘rule of faith’ ended once there were creeds (even though in a sense it still being used today). But now I think that thought was too simplisitc.

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