On the Christian Mystcism Podcast, Dr. Carlos Eire talks about St. Anthony of the Desert (251 356 AD), one of the first Christian hermits who struggled with demons and eventually led an Eden-like way of life. Also known as St. Anthony the Great, he is considered one of the fathers of monasticism, blazing a
Historian Ned Blackhawk’s sweeping volume, which recognizes the centrality of Native Americans in U.S. history, won the National Book Award in nonfiction.
The ‘ordinary academic mind’, William James wrote, struggles to recognise things which ‘present themselves as wild facts with no stall or pigeonhole’. The Yale professor Carlos Eire has a passion for them. His erudite, wilfully eccentric study of baroque Catholicism glories in the supernatural powers of holy persons. He showcases two kinds of miracles they