A. After the (1) Apostolic Fathers come in the second century (2) the Greek apologists, followed by (3) the Western apologists somewhat later, (4) the Gnostic and Marcionite heretics with their apocryphal Scriptures, and (5) the Catholic replies to them. B. The third century gives us ...
The Bible was held as the foundation of faith, the source of wisdom, and the charter of liberty. Its principles were diligently taught in the home, in the school, and in the church, and its fruits were manifest in thrift, intelligence, purity, and temperance. One might be for years a ...
This points to an era when Jewish Scriptures were highly regarded by the Church. Later generations, relegated the Old Testament to lesser status Clement was convinced in the reality of the phoenix. An ancient mythical symbol of Christ's resurrection In the 4th century, Clement was banished ...
Our appeal, therefore,must not be made to the Scriptures;nor must controversy be admitted on points in which victory will either be impossible, or uncertain, or not certain enough. But even if a discussion from the Scriptures should not turn out in such a way as to place both sides on a...
On the study of the holy scriptures; 3. On the study of the holy scriptures (cont.); 4. On the regulation of the heart and affections; 5. On the regulation of the heart and a... H Chapone 被引量: 25发表: 2013年 The Secular Holy Scriptures:The Role of the Holy Day Literary ...
as they needed their own distinctive scriptures, they soon created a body ofapocryphalbooks patterned on the New Testament. It was a Syrian gnostic convert,Tatian, who compiled (late 2nd century) the first harmony of the four Gospels (theDiatessaron)—a single gospel using the material from th...
Theologians such as Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon attempted to reform aspects of Catholicism while their counterparts, Zwingli and Calvin, attempted to create independent churches anchored solely on the scriptures and faith. In reality, they—along with the Lutherans later on—substituted ...
When you grieve on Father’s Day or any other day, I have found that taking the time to remember the person provides comfort. Scripture and prayer have also been helpful. Remember Matthew 5:4 (NIV): “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Scriptures About Grief and...
.14 It is here, for instance, that we find a reference to the abrogation of the Sabbath and the embracing of the Lord’s Day.15 However, one must distinguish between Judaism and the actual Jewish Scriptures, the latter of which Ignatius upholds when implying that both the Law and the ...
112. “The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth.”–John Quincy Adams 113. “Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible ...