My translation of Cyril of Alexandria’s Thesaurus on the Holy and Consubstantial Trinity is nearing publication with @BerithPress. The volume includes a substantial introduction to Cyril, the work, and its theological setting; a (mildly) critical text where the PG requires correction or supplementation; and nearly 800 footnotes identifying sources, resolving textual problems, and helping readers follow Cyril’s exegesis and argument. The Thesaurus itself is extraordinary: thirty-five discourses in which Cyril works through Scripture, the Nicene inheritance, and the great Trinitarian controversies of the fourth century. I’m very glad to see it becoming available to English readers.

That’s the thesis, if you can keep it.

Be watchful over your own soul in this matter. The Christian tradition has long recognized that public dissidence can become gravely sinful, even rising to sedition, which Christian moral theology has condemned as a mortal sin. Opposition to the state is not inherently virtuous.

Unexpectedly radical how few evangelical influencers trust the state. Opposing moderate liberal-right views is one thing; profound distrust of government agencies is another. Strange how many of the same voices condemn public dissidence when it challenges authorities they favor. Not all criticism of a State constitutes dissidence, but if the perpetual stance just is distrust and corrosive messaging… that’s just dissidence from the evangelical muddle.