Odds & Ends

For me, the “Church Fathers,” as for many of you, were a mystery and of little importance. I would be in my forties before Baxter Kruger would introduce me to my first one, St. Athanasius (296-373). After my first decades among “the frozen chosen” and the next ones among the “cruisamatics,” I had had little interest in our ancient brothers and sisters of the early church.

Chiastic structures are commonly found in Greek literature and Biblical texts. The word chiasm comes from the Greek letter X or Chi. A chiasm is essentially a thematic method of organizing a story or narrative into two halves. The first half of the story’s points are repeated in the second half of the story in