A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34-35)
Think of ‘as I have love you’ this way: For my [...]
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A blogger I just discovered a couple of weeks ago has this about Athanasius’ on the Incarnation. He mentions Athanasius’ continual arguments from Scripture. That’s something I had noticed in my thinking through the place of tradition in Christian theology. While I’m by no means a patristics scholar, in my casual readings through them I’ve [...]
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THe Countrey Parson hath read the Fathers also, and the Schoolmen, and the later Writers, or a good proition of all, out of all which he hath compiled a book, and body of Divinity, which is the storehouse of his Sermons, and which he preacheth all his Life; but diversly clothed, illustrated, and inlarged. [...]
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Posted in Society, Theology on February 21, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was reading Irenaeus’ ‘Against Heresies’ last night. I’m in book one where Irenaeus lays out all the different gnostic beliefs, explaining in detail what they teach. Not the most exciting reading, but it did have what has to be one of the funniest lines in the history of the Church’s writings, or at least [...]
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