church-history
Historical studies on the development of Christian doctrine, early church writings, councils, and controversies.
Early Church Christ’s 2nd Coming Paid 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
Eusebius, Jesus’ Prophecies, Josephus & the Canon Paid 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.
The Relatives of the Lord Paid 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
Epiphanius, Trinity & Mary’s Virginity Paid Members Public
The extracts in this post are taken from the English rendering of The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis Books II and III. De Fide (Second, revised Edition), translated by Frank Williams [Brill, Leiden-Boston 2013], Volume 79, from the section titled “Against Antidicomarians 1 58, but 78 of the series”
Leibniz, Logic & the Trinity Paid 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
Peter, Pope Agatho & Constantinople III Paid Members Public
In this post I will be citing extracts from the letters sent by Pope Agatho during the third Council of Constantinople (680-681 AD), which was convened to settle the matter of there being two wills in Christ our Lord. Pope Agatho not only speaks of Peter’s primacy as
Peter’s Primacy in the Early Church Paid 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
Augustine on 2 Cor. 5:21 Paid Members Public
I cite from St. Augustine’s The Enchiridion, in order to illustrate how this blessed saint of the Church interpreted the phrase in 2 Cor. 5:21 that Jesus was made sin to mean that Christ came into the flesh so as to become a sacrifice for our sins. All