Pointing out how widespread something like infant baptism or the perpetual virginity of Mary was in early Protestantism doesn't address ...

TurretinFan and Dan Chapa recently produced a video discussing the diversity of views of the perpetual virginity of Mary held by sources of ...

One of the issues that sometimes comes up in discussions of Mary's perpetual virginity is the necessity of accepting the doctrine. Is ac...

People have taken a lot of different positions on the perpetual virginity of Mary. A wide variety of views is found in the historical record...

It's common for Roman Catholics and other critics of Protestantism to bring up support among the earliest Protestants for various Marian...

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther...

Sometimes a disagreement is more obvious, such as the comments of a later church father who explicitly refers to his disagreement with the p...

Chromatius of Aquileia, who lived in the fourth and fifth centuries, wrote: "But concerning what the evangelist said, 'And he did...

From Gregory Lanier's new commentary on Luke: "Also, because prōtotokos here [in Luke 2:7] is modified by 'her,' it regi...

I've been posting a lot on both subjects lately, but people often dismiss such issues as insignificant. A recent post I wrote about bapt...

I recently heard somebody make that claim. If Jesus' brothers grew up in the same house as Jesus, which would have included having a lar...

My last post discussed some evidence for the consistency and historicity of what the New Testament reports about the siblings of Jesus. Tha...

I've been discussing the perpetual virginity of Mary in some of my recent posts, and one of the issues I've brought up is how often ...

In a recent post , I discussed some of the evidence against concepts like Mary's perpetual virginity, sinlessness, and assumption. Somet...

Advocates of the perpetual virginity of Mary sometimes acknowledge that there was opposition to the concept before Helvidius. They'll so...

Ben Merritt of Cleave to Antiquity recently produced a video in which he interviewed an eyewitness of the Zeitoun Marian apparitions and con...

I've often discussed examples of how critics of Protestantism, such as Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, disagree with the church fa...

Some of the evidence against Mary's perpetual virginity is linguistic, but not all of it is. I want to provide an overview of that fact,...

Tom Schmidt recently published a book arguing for the authenticity and significance of Josephus' material on Christianity . I've wri...

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