church-history
Historical studies on the development of Christian doctrine, early church writings, councils, and controversies.
SOME FACTS ABOUT JEROME Paid Members Public
I am reposting this from the following site: What we probably don’t know about St. Jerome is just . What we probably don’t know about St. Jerome is just what we need to know Meg Hunter-Kilmer – published on 09/28/17 He was singularly agitated, impatient, and proud … but
HYPOSTASIS AND OUSIA IN THE TRINITARIAN CONTROVERSIES Paid Members Public
The following is an excerpt from Richard P. C. Hanson’s book The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God, where he discusses the confusion that existed within the first four centuries of the church in respect to the terms that were employed in expressing the relationship between the Father,
REFUTING THE SKEPTICS: THE TEXTUAL VERACITY OF LUKE 22:43-44 Paid Members Public
I am reposting this in-depth blog article by James Snapp Jr. defending the textual veracity of Luke 22;43-44: Video Lecture 20: Luke 22:43-44: Jesus in Gethsemane. The 20th video lecture in the series Introduction to NT Textual Criticism is accessible at YouTube and at Bitchute. This lecture is
Is there Archeological Support for the Reliability of the Gospels? Paid Members Public
Gregory Boyd January 8, 2008 One of the many tests historians typically submit documents to in accessing their historical reliability concerns the extent to which archeology supports or undermines the historic claims the document makes. So we need to investigate the extent to which archeology confirms, or refutes, aspects of
How Reliable were the Early Church’s Oral Traditions? Paid Members Public
Gregory Boyd November 3, 2021 How reliable were the early church’s oral traditions? In terms of assessing the reliability of the Gospels, this is an extremely important question. First century Jewish culture was what scholars today would call an “orally dominated culture.” While a certain percentage of people could
JUSTIN MARTYR ON THE JEWISH CORRUPTION OF THE SCRIPTURES Paid Members Public
2nd century Church apologist and holy martyr Justin Martyr states that the Jews of his day not only rejected the Greek versions of the Hebrew Bible (known as the Septuagint [LXX]), but that they also removed clear prophecies of Jesus’ Deity, crucifixion and resurrection from their own copies of the
The Council of Antioch on Christ’s Divinity Paid Members Public
In the year 268 AD, a provincial council was convened at Antioch, Syria where the Apostles of the risen Lord often frequented and where believers were first called Christians: “Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: and when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And
63 Church Father Quotes on the Angel of the Lord Paid Members Public
This is a repost of the following article: https://refutinghereticsblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/11/fathers-and-the-angel/ By: The Trinitarian Ode CHURCH FATHER QUOTES ON THE MESSENGER/ANGEL OF YAHWEH Justin Martyr (110-165 A.D.) Justin Martyr’s Dialogue w/ Trypho Ch. 34 “..although the words of the Psalm expressly proclaim