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Clear searchSamuel G. Green · Historical survey · 1904
…stant background but is consistently measured and fair, helping the reader understand why developments occurred before asking for a verdict upon them. This is an older work and its language, emphases, and available historical sources reflect its period. It also ends at the dawn o…
View recommendation →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…stand outside because I love much of what I find within her, yet cannot call every later development apostolic. There is a particular accusation made against evangelical Christianity that I feel more deeply than might be expected. We are told that we are rootless individualists:…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…Their testimony does not present the cross as a legend which emerged after generations of development. Paul reminds the Corinthians of a message he had already delivered to them and had himself received: "For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…can pass an examination in Christology while remaining cold towards Christ. But the best doctrinal formulas arose because Christians discovered that familiar words could conceal radically different pictures. Arians could call Jesus “Son,” “Lord” and even “God” while placing Him…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…ship between the Father and the Son? The question takes us into one of the most important developments in early Christian doctrine. It also introduces us to Origen: a brilliant, influential and sometimes troubling theologian whose writings show that the Church did not immediately…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…h's Witnesses or internet sceptics. Neither was the Christian answer. One can acknowledge development without conceding invention. The vocabulary became more exact because controversy exposed ambiguity. A doctrine may be defined later than it is believed. The word incarnation is…
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