nudged by thelocalAudrey. But that moment would always stay with me. On one of my thrifting adventures within the next year or so, I ran across a wonderful book on the theological and scriptural and mystical fo
Longenecker prefers “one and only” not because his interpretation is prevented by “only begotten,” but because it leaves open the possibility of seeing some significance in the “begotten,” along the lines of the Nicene Creed. As if it were a prerogative of translators to present new ...
The saint wrote the text as a refutation of the West’s introduction of the phrase “and with the Son” into the Nicene Creed. (This phrase is known as the philoque). The text is a great work and it was a great work that someone took the time and effort to put the text into an...
Not until I joined our local United Methodist church in my late teenage years did I learn the Apostle’s Creed contains this line: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” The Nicene Creed contains the same affirmation. The phrase is such a simple one we may...
Then looking at the world through the words of that prayer, or through the words of the Nicene Creed, in which we speak — and will soon speak this morning — of Jesus as “God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God,” you can read the Bible as if those words are ...
“Person” and think of an autonomous individual with his own self-consciousness and will, then you don’t believe in the classical view, you’re at odds withallthe great creeds of the Church, and you’ve abandoned the Nicene and post-Nicene understanding of God. Depending on who you ...
It is worth noticing that the phrase in the “Nicene” Creed τὸ πνεῦμα… τὸ Κύριοντὸ ζωοποιόν is based on the language of this verse and of 2 Corinthians 3:6 above. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges18. But we all] i.e. we Christians,...
concerning Marks description of Jesus describing the last days, it seems apparent that whoever wrote that did not comprehend what John had to say and what our Nicene creed has to say, “God from God, Light from Light, begotten not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things...
being both seen and understood telepathically by numerous devout believers throughout the Roman Empire. These mental images of the written language were also utilized during important Church councils including the Council of Nicaea where the Church leadership permanently established the Nicene Creed as off...
Once Bishop Ambrose arose in Milan, both Maximus and Theodosius knew how powerful he was, and both positioned themselves as defenders of the Nicene Creed- in fact Theodosius became a bit fanatical about it all, but at this stage he just went after Arians, rather than pagans generally. ...