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Early Church, Monarchy & Hierarchy Members Public

The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 255-262. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume set of The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. Alexander Roberts

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Christ as Begotten & Divine Hierarchy Members Public

The following is taken David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998. Bercot refutes those who cite early Christian writers to prove that Christ was a created being solely because these authorities often used the Greek terms for create and

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Early Church Christ’s 2nd Coming Members Public

Early Church & Christ’s 2 nd Coming The list of quotes cited here is taken from David W. Bercot’s A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs, published by Hendrickson Publishers, Peabody, Massachusetts in 1998, pp. 730-731. The author will mention the particular volume and page number of the ten-volume

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Eusebius, Jesus’ Prophecies, Josephus & the Canon Members Public

In this post I will be taking excerpts from Eusebius’ Church History, Book III. In these extracts Eusebius mentions the ministry of the Apostles, their dispersion throughout the world, and some of the books attributed to them and others which were disputed by the early Church, such as 2 Peter.

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The Relatives of the Lord Members Public

In this post I will be citing extracts from Eusebius’ monumental work , written in the first quarter of the fourth century AD. I will be focusing primarily on what he says in respect to the relatives of our Lord, where the historian relies heavily on the five-volume work of a

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Leibniz, Logic & the Trinity Members Public

The following excerpts are taken from Maria Rosa Antognazza’s Leibniz on the Trinity and the Incarnation: Reason and Revelation in the Seventeenth Century, translated by Gerald Parks, and published by Yale University Press in 2007. All emphasis will be mine. Having overcome the first two objections regarding, respectively, the

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ST. SYMEON ON THE BLESSED TRINITY Members Public

The extracts cited here have been taken from maximologia.org: St Symeon the New Theologian, Theological Discourse 1. St. Symeon the New Theologian (Greek: Συμεὼν ὁ Νέος Θεολόγος; 949–1022) was an Eastern Orthodox monk and poet who was one of the four saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church

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Peter’s Primacy in the Early Church Members Public

In this article I will reference statements from some of the greatest theologians, apologists, scholars, bishops and/or sons to show that the unanimous belief of the universal Church was that Peter was the chief and head of all the holy and blessed Apostles. All emphasis will be mine. Epistle

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