Theologian and Church Historian

Robin Darling Young

1 article 1998

Robin Darling Young is a scholar of early Christianity and the Christian East. She is a professor of theology at The Catholic University of America, specializing in patristics, Eastern Christian traditions, and the history of the Holy Land. She contributed a piece on the Holy Land to The Weekly Standard in 1998.

STRANGERS IN THE HOLY LAND

July 20, 1998 · Magazine, Books and Arts

The early morning is platinum, even before sunrise in the arid uplands of eastern Turkey. And amid the hills, scrub oaks, and rolling miles of empty land stands St. Gabriel's -- a monastery where the visitor may still hear the predawn chants of monks and nuns and the lessons of students learning…