... conception of the development of doctrine, and how Mary herself provides the model for understanding the Church's ever-deepening understanding of the deposit of faith. Then he ... serves as the key, I think, to understanding the basis for the other Marian dogmas, considering together what the Church Fathers say about Mary as the New Eve is a very helpful way of resolving the Protestant-Catholic ...

MYTH None of the Church Fathers call the Magi kings The old Catholic Encyclopedia says, "No Father of the Church holds the Magi to have been kings."{1} The new Catholic Encyclopedia repeats this myth: "Nor did any Father of the Church hold the opinion that the Magi were kings."{2} On the contrary, Bishop St. Cyprian the Martyr of ...

Wheaton College, just a bit over an hour from my home, has inaugurated the new Center for Early Christian Studies.  On October 29, Robert Louis Wilken of the University of Virginia gave the inaugural lecture, “Going Deeper into the Bible:  The Church Fathers as Interpreters.”  Although I wasn’t able to go, I listened to the

... to this article that denies the claim that premillennialism was the historic faith of the early church. Rather, this article states that they were clearly amillennial. Below is a short excerpt: By far the early church statement of faith that most vividly presents the early church’s belief in an amillennial, "consummationist" eschatology is The Athanasian Creed ...

... "we are trained professionals, don't try this at home." I do think that parents, mainly fathers (if present), need to get their priorities straight. This means turn off the tv, ... Church leaders must be modeling home discipleship and make it the culture of the church. Fathers must do it and make it the culture of the family. If this happens, then within a couple of generations, it can ...

... who undoubtedly had no sin (On Nature and Grace, 42). Later Fathers, such as St. John of Damascus (d. AD 755) ... no official dogma of the Immaculate Conception as of this period. Most Church Fathers agreed that Mary was sinless at the time ... .NetThis post is from the Holy Comforter Catholic Church eNewsletter which is sent out once a week via email. If you would like to subscribe to the eNewsletter, ...

... to Sola Scriptura. Protestants have been claiming for a long time that the Church Fathers believed in Sola Scriptura. My debate opponent Rhology has expressed his own support for this longheld myth of Protestantism ... proof-texts and then is shown that this same Father elsewhere writes of the authority of the Church's Traditions and Councils is that this Father was inconsistent in ...

... eyes open. I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the Church Fathers in my recent class. In so many ways, they remind ... lot of theological speculation. But they were also truly holy men. None of these Fathers were pure academic theologians in the modern sense ... exile, or those imprisoned because of their fidelity to God's Church... "See," they say, "how they love one ...

... , Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4, Chapter 16, Section 6 Yet we see similar comments in the church fathers: This sacrament the Lord Himself received in infancy, although He abrogated ... if any one seek for divine authority in this matter, though what is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held ...

... ," and, "the task of theologians is first and foremost to be faithful to what the church has been passing down, and not to be overly creative or novel." Now the question that I have is ... being overly novel to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus as the dawning of the eschaton? Were the church fathers like Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria being over-critical when they engaged Arius ...

... that they planted. They did not make their churches into a denomination, but allowed each church to be self-governing. We did not see any apostolic ministry in the churches around us. What we saw among them mostly were two man-made ... Then the board would advertise and find another pastor for their church!! In both these systems, there were no spiritual fathers – only elected and paid leaders. ...

... . If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as "Church of the Nazarene, Pentecostal Gospel," "Holiness Church," ... 33 by Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It has not changed since that time. Our church is now almost 2,000 years old. And it is for this reason, that Orthodoxy, the Church of the Apostles and the Fathers is considered the true "one Holy Catholic and ...

... been apparently spending a lot of time with Bill Cosby these days. In a recent speech at a black church in Queens, NY, Holder took a page out of the Barack Obama Campaign Catalog and chose to win favors with the black middle class by recklessly bashing away at absentee fathers and returning to the whole "ya’ll just need to grow up and be more responsible" argument that ...

... the order fixed among the great Sees of the Christian Church followed the greatness, splendour and opulency of the cities. Amongst the other Anglican ... of England is inspired more often and more directly by Platonic philosophy, and especially the Eastern Fathers of the Church. The new doctrinal definitions of the Roman ... 8 Cf. William Palmer, Treatise on the Church of Christ, 3rd. ed., vol. I, Part ...

... , at GiGi's Kennadee and dada Kaylee and Daddy Precious fathers day kiss Dad and his daughters on fathers day Headed to Noblesville on our way to Louisville, went to our old church, White River Christian Church then ... not resist giving her a lemon, but she kept going back for more In the morning we greeted daddy with his fathers day gift, a new leather briefcase!