In a recent video discussing his conversion to Roman Catholicism, Joe Schmid said : "And then, totally unsurprisingly, given their de...

He's been discussed a lot lately by various Catholics. See this recent video by Cameron Bertuzzi , for example. And Ignatius has often b...

It's sometimes argued that the infancy narratives were added to Matthew and/or Luke sometime after the documents were originally publish...

As I discussed in another post , we find baptismal regeneration contradicted in a large number and variety of ways in the extrabiblical sour...

I've argued, in other posts here and elsewhere, that they were. But if they weren't, what would follow? There still would have bee...

Last year, I wrote about the implications of John 19:27 for Mary's influence on the apostle John, the church of Ephesus, and other sourc...

It's common to cite Josephus, Tacitus, Clement of Rome, and other early sources to corroborate certain parts of the New Testament. But t...

We're often told that the early Christians don't show much interest in Jesus' childhood outside the opening chapters of Matthew ...

"Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings, breakings, and dislocations of bones; let cutting off of members;...

He never advocates justification through baptism in his letters, but he often refers to faith as a means of justification without mentioning...

I've sometimes brought up the importance of Ephesians 6:1-3 in the context of early Christian eschatology. I've also mentioned the e...

the “living Magisterium” still has time to “reformulate”! Over at Darryl Hart’s Old Life , there has been a long and wide-ranging discuss...

Philip Schaff (1858): “But although he was a man of apostolic character, and governed the church with great care, he was personally not sati...

I posted these selections from Ignatius’s letter to the Romans at Old Life yesterday, and again in comments at Green Baggins . There, Lane ...

Garrison (# 392 ): You begin your paragraph by assuming the doctrine of sola scriptura in arguing that the New Testament is a witness to ...