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  • Ep8: How Should Christians Respond to Persecution?

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  • The Trinity in the Early Church (Part II)

    Historian J.W.C. Wand argues that the orthodox belief of the early church included the deity of the Holy Spirit, as it was essentially argued along with the deity of Christ in the Christological debates and was held as popular belief among Christians.[8] Yet as Rebecca Lyman argues that one cannot merely accept popular opinion as…

  • The Trinity in the Early Church (Part I)

    The doctrine of the Trinity–espoused by the Cappadocian Fathers as “God is one object in Himself and three objects to Himself”–is commonly understood to be one of the more difficult concepts to grasp in Christian theology. Much of Early Church history revolved around debates concerning the Person of Jesus Christ and His relationship to the…

  • Recommended Reading: October 22

    If you read one article this week, look at The Greatest Heresy of Our Time Isn’t What You Think by Jonathan Mitchican For those of you with additional reading time this fine Fall weekend, check out the selections below, gathered from around the blogging world. Happy reading!

  • God Made Man (Part II)

    Between the Council of Nicaea (325 AD) and the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD), many controversies erupted from the Alexandrian and Antiochene positions on the person of Christ.[16] The Council of Constantinople (381 AD) condemned the belief of Apollinarius that Christ only had one will, that of the divine.[17] While the Church believed that Christ…

  • Ep7: Should Christians Engage Philosophy?

    In this podcast, the Church Debate series continues with a discussion of whether or not Christians should engage philosophy. The perspectives of Tertullian and Justin Martyr serve as the basis for our conversation.

  • God Made Man (Part I)

    C. S. Lewis once said that if the incarnation happened, “it was the central event in the history of the earth.” What is the incarnation? And why has it been such an important area of theological consideration since the earliest days of Christianity? The term ‘incarnation’ may be defined as “a person who embodies in…

  • Some Thoughts on Bible Reading

    Some thoughts on Bible reading for your morning: 1. Never read a Bible verse. Always read at least a paragraph, preferably more. Best is reading a whole book (more on that below). You can make any one verse mean any number of things, but considering the larger context of passage places that verse within a…

  • Recommended Reading: October 15

    If you read one article this week, engage Love, Imagination, and the Void by Chris Casberg. For those of you with additional reading time this weekend, check out the following selections, gathered from around the blogging world. Think I missed sharing something important? Let me know in the comments section below.

  • Ep6: How Do We Encounter God?

    This episode continues the Church Debates series, discussing how early Christians talked about encountering God and the challenge of Gnosticism.