Greetings and Salutations, Students of Spring 2026!
If you’re taking my THE 2400 Online - Christian Spirituality and Mysticism, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
welcome students of spring 2026
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Spring 2026!
If you’re taking my THE 1000C In Person - Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 2400 In Person - Christian Spirituality and Mysticism, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 440 Hybrid - Eschatology and Christian Hope, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
welcome students fall 2025
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Fall 2025!
If you’re taking my THE 1000C In Person - Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 2210 In Person - Perspectives on the Church, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
welcome students of spring 2025
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Spring 2025!
If you're taking my THE 1000C Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 2400 Christian Spirituality and Mysticism, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
welcome students of fall 2024
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Fall 2024!
If you're taking my THE 1000C Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 2210 online - Perspectives on the Church, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
welcome students of summer 2024
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Summer 2024!
If you’re taking my THE 2210 online - Perspectives on the Church, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
welcome students of fall 2023
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Fall 2023!
If you’re taking my THE 1000C In Person - Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 2210 In Person - Perspectives on Church, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
Book Launch - Wed Mar 22 7pm St Paul Church Brooklyn
Here is the launch of my new book Compassionate Presence: The Trinitarian Spirituality of Adrienne von Speyr.
This Wednesday, March 22 at St. Paul Church (190 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY), 7-9pm.
It’s a big event (presentation by me, interview, and book signing) and I think many of our department and St. John’s community would love to be there. This book represents the culmination of several years of my intense research on the significance of Holy Saturday (the descent of Christ to hell) and what that means for humanity in our disconnected, fragmented age today.
I hope to see you there!
welcome students of spring 2023
Greetings and Salutations, Students of Spring 2023!
If you’re taking my THE 1000C In Person - Perspectives on Christianity: A Catholic Approach, please clicky here
If you’re taking my THE 3215 In Person - Mary and the Saints, please clicky here
You're the cat's pajamas.
order my new book: compassionate presence
order my new book compassionate presence
Now available: my new book Compassionate Presence: The Trinitarian Spirituality of Adrienne von Speyr.
In the ancient Christian Apostles' Creed, we speak the fourth line that Jesus Christ"suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he went down to the dead (ad inferno - to hell)." This mysterious line of Christ's descent to hell generated a deep mystical spirituality in Adrienne von Speyr (d. 1967), a Swiss laywoman, physician, wife, mother, and spiritual writer. Her extensive speculative mysticism influenced the critical work of the Catholic theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar, who had a profound influence on Catholic theology in the late twentieth century, and even today.
In this book, Matthew Lewis Sutton offers a profound encounter, with Adrienne's mystical encounter with the inner life and intense love of the Trinity. This mystical spirituality of Holy Saturday - the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday-guides us away from our age of loneliness, isolation, and alienation toward a new restoration of compassion, love, and reconciliation. The ancient Christian doctrine of Christ descended to hell can be a rediscovery of the extreme compassion of God to rescue us back to his compassionate presence.
Please order Compassionate Presence