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About Dr. Leroy Huizenga

Dr. Leroy Huizenga is Administrative Chair of Human and Divine Sciences at the University of Mary in Bismarck, 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.

Ecumenism and the Eucharist

November 9, 2017 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 11

Attempts to achieve Christian unity are noble things, for those outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church who are baptized properly are indeed Christians. […]

On St. Ignatius of Antioch and the early Church

October 17, 2017 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 2

The second-century martyr bears witness to the early provenance of Catholic distinctives. […]

How many faces of Christ?

February 8, 2017 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

Recent decades have witnessed revisionist portraits of Jesus congenial to the contemporary concerns of the chattering classes rise time and time again, whether Christs compatible with New-Age thinking from the 1970s and ’80s, reconstructions of […]

On the Perpetual Virginity of Mary: A Response to Peter Leithart

January 9, 2017 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 1

At his First Things blog, Peter Leithart attempts to explain why St. Matthew claims Joseph did not “know” his wife, Mary, until she gave birth to her son, Jesus (Matt. 1:25). His answer is that […]

Seeking Signs During The Times

January 3, 2017 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

The fall of my junior year in high school the United States had launched Operation Desert Shield, designed to keep Saddam Hussein out of Saudi Arabia while providing time to make preparations for the offensive […]

Postmodernity and the “Ideal” Jesus

December 18, 2016 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

“God made us in his image—and we returned the favor.” I was reminded of this old joke reading the latest tome from John Shelby Spong, for he employs what he thinks he knows of biblical […]

John the Baptist reveals the Reason for the Season

December 5, 2016 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

In Advent and Christmas our thoughts turn, naturally, to the baby Jesus and his Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. Most people think this time of year is about the miraculous birth of Our Lord, Jesus […]

Intercommunion?

October 30, 2016 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

Rumors are running rampant that intercommunion with Lutherans is on the table as Pope Francis travels to Lund, Sweden to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation this Monday and Tuesday. On one hand, extraordinary […]

Reason, Authority, and the Roman Rite

July 20, 2016 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

Catholicism esteems reason without rationalism, authority without authoritarianism. Catholicism works when the Church’s authorities act in a rational manner, using their reason to interpret the Church’s teaching rightly and in turn to teach it with […]

Ad Orientem Nunc!

July 12, 2016 Dr. Leroy Huizenga 0

Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW for short), gave a beautiful barnburner of a speech last week at the Sacra Liturgia conference in London. […]