Positively Medieval
by Jamie Blosser, Our Sunday Visitor, £15
Jamie Blosser does not advocate “misty-eyed nostalgia” for medieval Christendom and acknowledges that it could be “just as sin-infected and scandal-ridden as the Church in our own day”. He firmly believes, however, that the era also provided “a good deal of authentic, Bible-believing, Jesus-centred, morally pure Christianity”.
Blosser proves his point through a broad sampling of texts by the luminaries who typically feature in such compendia: Alcuin and Boethius, Bernard of Clairvaux and Aquinas, Bonaventure and Meister Eckhart. It is refreshing, though, to see the inclusion of some figures from further east, including St John Damascene and Gregory Palamas.
