Audio Lecture: Kallistos Ware on Eastern Orthodox & Evangelical Dialogue

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Five Scholars that the Layperson Should Read

So, over at Boston Bible Geeks, Danny posted an interesting list of the 5 scholars that the average churchgoer would benefit from reading. That sounded like a great idea to me, and I was interested to read his list, so I’m stealing his idea and making my own. I’ll raise my hand and admit that [...]

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We Believe in One God (Ancient Christian Doctrine, vol. 1)

Gerald Bray (ed.), Thomas Oden (series ed.). We Believe in One God (Ancient Christian Doctrine volume 1). Downers Grove, IL. IVP Press, 2009 Thank you very much to Adrianna Wright at Intervarsity Press for the review copy. We Believe in One God is the first of five volumes in the Ancient Christian Doctrine Series from [...]

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Fridays with the Fathers: Hippolytus on the Harmony of God

The Father is one, but there are two persons because there is also the Son, and then again, there is the Holy Spirit too. The Father decrees, the Word executes the decree, and the Son is manifested by the Spirit, through whom we believe in the Father. The dispensation of harmony leads straight back to [...]

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Fridays with the Fathers – Augustine on Pondering God

As far as we can, we should think of God as good but without quality, great but without quantity, a creator even though he lacks nothing, a ruler with no position, the sustainer of all things without having them, fully present everywhere but with no place of his own, eternal but without time, making things [...]

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Fridays with the Fathers – Ambrosiaster on Salvation

God wants everyone to be saved, but only if they come to him. He does not want those who are unwilling to be saved, though he wants so save them if they so desire. For the one who gave the Law to everyone has not excluded anyone from salvation. Does not a doctor declare publicly [...]

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Fridays with the Fathers – John Chrysostom on Admitting that You Just Don’t Know

After saying ‘When I was a child’, the apostle Paul goes on to add, ‘Now we see through a glass darkly’. Here is the second proof of our present weakness, in that our knowledge is imperfect. And the third proof is found in the word darkly. A little child sees, hears, and says many things [...]

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