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Did you know? Interesting and unusual facts about the church's first Bible interpreters.
November 1, 2003... Great grandfather of medieval culture?
Clement of Alexandria (ca. 160-215) began the monumental project that would culminate in the Middle Ages--to place all of Western culture on a biblical foundation. Robert Wilken calculates there are between seven and eight biblical citations on every...
The founding fathers we never knew: and two announcements.(From The Editor)(Editorial)
November 1, 2003... Don't know much about history... "So croons the popular song. And today, among the least-known figures of history are the early church fathers. But not only are such people as Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Basil the Great the originators of the church's founding doctrines (the...
The habits of highly effective Bible readers: what we can learn from the church fathers that will enrich our own Bible study. A conversation with Christopher A. Hall.(Introduction)
November 1, 2003... In recent years, more and more evangelical Protestants have been looking at the early church fathers--that group of Christian teachers stretching from just after the apostles through approximately the first five centuries of the church--to see how they read their Bibles and did their...
Why the reformers read the fathers.
November 1, 2003... The Reformers taught "Sola Scriptura, which meant every person became their own Bible interpreter, right?
Wrong. We asked noted Reformation scholar David Steinmetz of Duke Divinity School about this. In this excerpt from our interview, he reminds us that the Reformers strove to ensure...
The first battle for the Bible: a century after Christ's death, a literalist and a spiritualizer forced the church to choose how it would read the Scriptures it inherited from the Jews.
November 1, 2003... By the year 150, the Christian church exhibited many features that would mark it for centuries: Christians baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; they celebrated the Lord's Supper weekly; they were governed by a bishop, presbyters, and deacons. But they still lacked one...