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Clear searchThe Venerable Bede · Ecclesiastical and national history · 731
I recommend Bede because he brings the early English Church out of abstraction and fills it with people, places, journeys, decisions, failures, and acts of courage. His history shows how the gospel crossed cultures and kingdoms, how po…
View recommendation →Circumcision of the heart and the identity of Paul's inward Jew
…the Spirit is now a true or spiritual Jew. Since Christians possess that inward work, the Church has become spiritual Israel. That reading takes Paul's contrast seriously. Outward privilege without inward reality cannot please God. Circumcision cannot protect a lawbreaker from ju…
Read article →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
…referable reading. It is the traditional Masoretic pointing reflected in the KJV and most English translations. The ancient versions generally understood the noun as “sons,” although several rendered the accompanying verb with the sense of dwelling or cohabiting. The same consona…
Read article →The event is explicit; the real dispute is its timing
…way. The Latin Vulgate rendered the expression rapiemur, from the verb which supplied the English word rapture. The label is not being used to import a foreign event into Scripture. It names Paul's catching up. The proper test is therefore not whether an English theological term…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…t. Those facts should not be minimised. But he did not introduce the deity of Christ to a Church which had never believed it, he did not decide the outcome by himself, and the council did not choose the books of the Bible. Nicaea was an attempt by bishops, enjoying unprecedented…
Read article →Isaiah, John, and the Divine Identity of Jesus Christ
…does not automatically produce “a god”. Greek has no indefinite article corresponding to English “a”, and nouns without the definite article may be definite, indefinite or qualitative, depending upon their construction and context. A qualitative reading—emphasising the character…
Read article →Eustathius of Antioch, the human soul of Christ and the pictures created by our words
…use he lacked conviction. It was underdeveloped at the point of personal unity. The later Church would need to say that Christ’s humanity was complete but did not constitute a second human person alongside the Son. The eternal Son is the personal subject of both the divine and hu…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…a brilliant, influential and sometimes troubling theologian whose writings show that the Church did not immediately possess a perfectly settled vocabulary for everything Scripture revealed about Christ. The truth was present in the apostolic writings. The language used to defend…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…lations render the final words "in what they have" or "written down with them". Whichever English wording is preferred, the verse appeals to Scriptures connected with the communities being addressed, not merely to books which had disappeared centuries earlier. Surah 10:94 tells M…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…them. That is not said to mock the converts. Their confusion also belongs at the feet of churches which entertained but did not teach, gathered crowds but did not catechise, and told people to believe without preparing them to explain what they believed. If someone leaves Christ…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…e form of that method requires one further discipline. A concordance can show us where an English word occurs, and a lexicon can show us the range of a Greek word, but neither can interpret a verse for us. Words receive their precise force from sentences, arguments, books and ult…
Read article →Governmental restraint, the final ten kings, and the preparation of the temple
…k. Chrysostom, Homily 4 on Second Thessalonians. These short excerpts are from the linked English translations. They establish early support for particular elements of the argument. Tertullian’s following chapter envisages the beast making war upon the Church, so his testimony ca…
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