Over the past several days, I've been responding to Cameron Bertuzzi's recent videos about issues related to the New Testament canon...

In other posts, I've discussed other groups who were forerunners of the Reformation to some extent, the Waldensians and the Lollards. I...

In a previous post , I said I might address the subject in the future. Here are a couple of relevant passages in Augustine:

A book on the origins of the Christmas holiday came out earlier this year, Jozef Naumowicz's The Origin Of The Feast Of The Nativity In ...

"Our heart when it rises to Him is His altar; the priest who intercedes for us is His Only-begotten; we sacrifice to Him bleeding victi...

My last post mentioned that Augustine wrote against some advocates of eternal security in his day. See, for example, section 21:17-27 in Th...

"It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself....

In a recent post , I cited a book on the cult of the saints by Matthew Dal Santo. Something that often comes up in the book is the wide vari...

People often underestimate how much Christians of earlier generations were concerned about having evidence for Christianity and how much evi...

"For our good, about which philosophers have so keenly contended, is nothing else than to be united to God. It is, if I may say so, by ...

I've mentioned aspects of the New Testament resurrection accounts that were difficult for the early Christians in some way and, therefo...

"Let them read our commandments in the Prophets, Gospels, Acts of the Apostles or Epistles; let them peruse the large number of precept...

"And it is in Him, too, we already see the concluding expression of the prophecy fulfilled: 'In His name shall the nations hope....

Zach Howard at Desiring God has put together a basic but helpful reader's guide to Augustine's The Confessions . If you want to comp...

"Are ye ashamed to be corrected? This is the vice of the proud. It is, forsooth, a degradation for learned men to pass from the school ...

"But who can conceive, not to say describe, what degrees of honor and glory shall be awarded [in heaven] to the various degrees of meri...

A popular Arminian trope is to say that Calvinism is based on Augustinian theology, and Augustinian theology is colored by Augustine's ...

You can view the video here . It centers around the Athens/Jerusalem distinction made by Tertullian. I haven't read Shapiro's book, ...

Giving things up for the Kingdom? Just a reminder: that time of year is upon us: the “liturgically-minded” all want to “give up things fo...

" Augustine's friend " by Paul Helm.