Tag Early Church

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Discussing God’s Attributes

Is the conversation about God’s attributes “old fashioned” and “western”?  Regarding systematic theology, one often encounters the critique that the logical ordering of various topics is “western” or “Greek” or “academic”–all of which are really meant as synonyms for “bad”…

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Learning from the Early Church

I recently finished a sermon series on the book of Acts at our church. I have been deeply blessed by working through this book. In fact, as I completed the last sermon, I was in tears. I told my wife,…

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Origen on Prayer

Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, “Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer.…

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Origen on Prayer

Until the third century, as far as we know, no full treatise on the subject of Christian prayer had been written. According to Eric Jay, “Christian literature of the first two centuries by no means ignores the subject of prayer.…