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63AD Joseph of Arimathea visited Britain Joseph of Arimathea, one of Jesus’s disciples, was sent to Britain to convert the people to Christianity. 75 – 77AD Roman Conquest of Britain completed The Romans defeated the last of the resistant tribes in the North making all of Britain Roman. 7...
49Here there is a rare mention of Jesus Christ in a curse tablet, though the inclusionof divinities from other traditions is frequent in Greek and Latin magical texts.50The author of this curse was Christian, while the opponents (thedefixi)werebe-lievers in Greco-Roman gods. The Christian ...
For the Father gave to Peter the revelation of the Son; but the Son gave him to sow that of the Father and that of Himself in every part of the world; and to mortal man He entrusted the authority over all things in ...
Is this Church truly the one true Church established by Jesus Christ? That study has been going on now for more than twenty five years and I remain a committed Evangelical Protestant precisely because of the truth of Scripture and the facts of history. This study has resulted in the writing...
Indeed, as seen in the writings of the Roman historian Tacitus, already as early as the late first century CE, Romans themselves thought of their history in terms of those two periods. The basic difference between the two periods is quite simple. During the period of the Republic, Rome was...
There is no mention of the Virgin Mary. The Bible then adds this final Word: “If we receive the witness of men [the Roman Catholic Church], the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which He hath testified of his Son†(1 John 5:9). Amen...
andthefallacioustriumphoftheInfidel,shouldceaseassoonastheyrecollectnotonlybywhom,butlikewisetowhom,theDivineRevelationwasgiven.ThetheologianmayindulgethepleasingtaskofdescribingReligionasshedescendedfromHeaven,arrayedinhernativepurity.Amoremelancholydutyisimposedonthehistorian.Hemustdiscovertheinevitablemixtureoferrorand...
(not to mention miraculous) element of this story is the trans-formation of Polycarp’s body into food:Now when he had uttered his Amen and finished his prayer, the men in charge of the firelit it, and a great flame blazed up and we, to whom it was given to see, saw a marvel....
I deal briefly with whether for Christians, a proper social behavior inspired by a particular cultural tradition, that is the main meaning of Li 礼in the Analects, has any connection with or can be a problem for the rituals of the Christian tradition instituted by Jesus as vehicles of divine...