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This is just to let you know that I will be out of town most of this coming week. I will try to do some web logs while on the road, but the web logs will be subject to my travel schedule. If I do any web logs, they will not deal with Church history, since... Read More
Series: History of the 3rd Century Church - Origen's excommunication had nothing to do with the things he taught--and certainly not for his teaching on Universal Reconciliation. He was condemned as a schismatic for leaving Alexandria without the blessing of the domineering bishop and for accepting o... Read More
Last month I mentioned how the drop in interest rates would help the economy in one way but would also have some negative side effects--such as a drop in the value of the dollar. With the dollar worth less and less, this means that the price of world commo... Read More
Series: History of the 3rd Century Church - As the third century dawned, Rome had just begun to assert its primacy over the rest of the churches. Ambition and the desire for power are usually symptoms of evil motives, though often soothed by high sounding words designed to make power acquisitio... Read More
Series: History of the 2nd Century Church - There is no clear break between the second and third centuries in the history of the Church. The most natural break comes with the death of Polycarp in 155, which virtually ended the sub-Apostolic Age, that is, the time of those who had been the immediate... Read More
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