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Clear searchHistory, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…historical identity should be rejected. The warning should be retained. What made ancient Gnosticism Gnostic? Modern scholarship has rightly questioned whether “Gnosticism” names one religion. The movements placed beneath the term did not share a single founder, creed, organisati…
Read article →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…atience with which he first explains his opponents and then answers them. His rebuttal of Gnosticism contains powerful discussions of the true humanity and deity of Christ, bodily resurrection, the goodness of creation, and the unity of the Old and New Testaments. He is also an i…
View recommendation →An unrequited love for the historic Church
A personal reflection on loving the historic Church, confessing the ancient rule of faith, and remaining outside because conscience cannot treat later dogmatic developments as apostolic revelation.
Read article →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…is not sufficient to establish that an object was there. This leaves us with disciplined agnosticism about many individual cases. Some experiences may be entirely generated by a distressed or recovering brain. Some may combine physiology, memory, medication and expectation. Scrip…
Read article →The incarnation, the limits of created perspective and the love philosophy could not imagine
…teaching Paul opposed. The argument here does not depend upon identifying it precisely as Gnosticism, Platonism or any later philosophical school. 4. Islam arose centuries after Paul and should not simply be identified with Neoplatonism. Nevertheless, the Qur’an explicitly reject…
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