Frank | August 24, 2009
Fulgentius was born in the year 468 and educated in Vandal North Africa. After a short career in finance he joined a monastery. He later was elevated to an abbot and in the year 508 became bishop of Ruspe, a coastal town in modern Tunisia.
Fulgentius defended the doctrine of the Trinity [...]
Category: Early Christian Studies, Patristics, Reformed theology, Theology of grace, Translated Texts |
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Tags: 1 Timothy 2:4, Arianism, Augustinianism, Caesarius of Arles, free will, Fulgentius of Ruspe, grace, John Maxentius, predestination, Sardinia, saving will of God, Semi-Pelagianism, Trinity, Tunisia, Vandal North Africa
Frank | August 13, 2009
There is a lot of chatter about the year 2012 as the year when the world will end. It has something to do with the Mayan calendar. In fact, the Barnes and Noble near my house had a whole display of books about this supposedly fateful year. Frequently I am asked what [...]
Category: Eschatology, Millennialism |
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Tags: 2012, date setting, Day and hour, end of the world, Eschatology, false predictions, Jesus, Last Judgment, Newman, prophecy, Y2K
