Frank | February 14, 2010
Recently I was invited to contribute my thoughts on what Christians today can learn from patristic theology for a new book entitled The Contemporary Church and the Early Church edited by Paul Hartog and published by Wipf and Stock.
My chapter, “Learning from Patristic Christology,” focuses on early Christianity’s articulation of the doctrine of the Son’s [...]
Category: Christology, Early Christian Studies, Patristics |
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Frank | November 7, 2009
Hippolytus was a presbyter in the church at Rome about 200 AD. It is he who started the genre of literature we know as biblical commentaries, being the first to write a running commentary on one book of the Bible. The book he chose was the prophet Daniel. Hippolytus’ church was suffering [...]
Category: Biblical Commentaries, Early Christian Studies, Eschatology, Patristics, Translated Texts |
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Tags: Biblical Commentaries, Daniel, Early Christianity, early church, Eschatology, Hippolytus, martyrdom, persecution, prophecy, Rome, Second Coming, Septimus Severus, W. Brian Shelton
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