Our study of the works of the ancients enables us to give fresh life to their finer ideas, and rescue them from time's oblivion and man's neglect. ~ Peter of Blois
About Leroy Huizenga
Dr. Leroy Huizenga is Chair of the Department of Theology and Director of the Christian Leadership Center at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D. A native of Minot, N.D., Dr. Huizenga has a B.A. in Religion from Jamestown College (N.D.), a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in New Testament from Duke University. During his doctoral studies he received a Fulbright Grant to study and teach at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany. After teaching at Wheaton College (Ill.) for five years, Dr. Huizenga was reconciled with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil of 2011.
Dr. Huizenga is the author of The New Isaac: Tradition and Intertextuality in the Gospel of Matthew and co-editor of Reading the Bible Intertextually, and has lectured on Scripture throughout the United States and abroad.
Recent Blog Posts
June 5, 2013 |
St Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
Today is the feast day of St. Boniface, martyred 5 June 754 at Dokkum at the hands of my ancestors, the Frisians,...
May 29, 2013 |
Papal Prayer Intentions for June
The Pope’s general prayer intention for June is: “That a culture of dialogue, listening, and mutual...
May 29, 2013 |
Your First Summer Read
Your first summer read must be Rod Dreher’s The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, A Small Town,...
May 26, 2013 |
Aquinas on the Trinity
While we’re at it, stolen shamelessly from my friends at The Sacred Page: There is in God, as there is in...
May 26, 2013 |
St Augustine on the Trinity
From Confessions, book 13:11,12: Which of us understands the Almighty Trinity? And yet which speaks not of It, if...