“Establishing these letters, written in Greek, as authentic and genuinely from the first decade of the second century was one of the triumphs of nineteenth-century British scholarship. Without them, this bishop of Antioch might have remained no more than a name, as obscure as many another early Christian bishop.”
What an idiotic and ethnocentric comment for an otherwise well educated Latin Rite Catholic to make. Its a shame because the rest of the article is pretty good. Just because the Western Church didn’t appreciate this great saint after the first three centuries or so of The Church’s existence doesn’t mean that the great Churches of the East likewise forgot him. +Ignatius has been commemorated continually in the East since the 2nd century and his writings looked upon as definitional of the ecclesiology of The Church as well as its Eucharistic theology. Peasants in the East preserved what the Popes of Rome evidently forgot.
Perhaps you missed the point he was trying to make.
Establishing these letters, written in Greek, as authentic and genuinely from the first decade of the second century was one of the triumphs of nineteenth-century British scholarship.
He does not question St. Ignatius' prominent position in the Church, be it West or East. He is simply stating a fact. No need to be so sensitive, K.