"For anyone who does not love [God] shows clearly that he does not know how lovable he is, that he has not learned to taste and see how...

"even a general in battle loves that soldier who returns after fleeing and presses the enemy bravely, more than the one who never turne...

Several centuries before the Reformation, Bede wrote against viewing 1 John 5:5 as support for justification through faith alone and, more s...

I've written before about how opposition to the perpetual virginity of Mary persisted beyond the earliest centuries, into the late patri...

"Allegorically this text [Luke 8:19] harmonizes with the one above, where it is said of the Jews who attend only to the letter of the L...

"The shepherds hasten; they desire to see with all the fervour of their intellect the advent of the Christ whom they have understood. F...

Jerome wrote, regarding Jovinian, a monk who was a contemporary: "He endeavours to show that 'they who with full assurance of fai...