Fides Quaerens Intellectum

While the right order requires that we should believe the deep things of the faith before we undertake
to discuss them by reason, it seems careless for us, once we are established in the faith, not to aim at
understanding what we believe.
-Anselm of Canterbury, Cur Deus Homo

About Me

Nathaniel M. Campbell: I am a medievalist, a social studies teacher at Knox Central High School, and an adjunct instructor in history at Union Commonwealth University. My research includes medieval theologies of history, text/image relationships in visionary and mystical texts, and the writings of the twelfth-century Doctor of the Church, St. Hildegard of Bingen. I am also a translator of medieval Latin and German texts, especially as relate to my research. My translation of Hildegard's Book of Divine Works is available from Catholic University of America Press here. I completed a Master's in Medieval Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2010, a Fulbright Fellowship in Germany in 2008, and a B.A. in Classics and German at Boston College in 2007.

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Fides Quaerens Intellectum

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Doctor Ecclesiae: A Chronogram in Honor of St. Hildegard of Bingen

St. Hildegard of Bingen made Doctor of the Church: Coverage Round-Up

Caritas, Humilitas, and Pax: Theophany of the Fountain in St. Hildegard of Bingen’s Liber Divinorum Operum III.3

Doctor Viriditatis? St. Hildegard of Bingen’s Doctor of the Church Name

The Pope and the Prophetess: Benedict XVI, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Reform of the Church (Part 2)

The Pope and the Prophetess: Benedict XVI, Hildegard of Bingen, and the Reform of the Church (Part 1)

In die cinerum: Ash Wednesday Remembrances

Vergil’s Messiah: The Pedagogical Use of Medieval Interpretations of Classical Texts

Hildegard of Bingen to be named Doctor of the Church

The “Nostradamus” Effect: Prophecy and Its Discontents

Can Faith and Science Coexist?

This day is call’d the feast of Crispian

Verbum de Verbo: On Translation and its Act of Faith

Book Review: Inventing the Middle Ages by Norman F. Cantor

Curiosity in and out of the Classroom, Intellectual and Otherwise

Sunrise, Sunset

The Secrets of Medieval Cathedrals...

In novum statum: The Next Stage of Our Lives

In Principio Novo: This Blog Returns to Life

In Memoriam

We’re Engaged!

Divine Love as both Creative and Rational: The Theophany of Caritas in Hildegard of Bingen's Liber Divinorum Operum

Some Scholarly Pet Peeves

Internal Assessment

The “Human Rights” of Chimpanzees

The Bells

Finalé, Whoa Oh Oh Oh!

Germany Won, Austria Zero

"Klingender Dom" Choir Concert

Encounters with the Romantic abound