Documents tagged with Church Fathers

G. Massey. the Gnostic Paul

1 Gerald Massey's Lectures Originally published in a private edition c. 1900 Paul the Gnostic Opponent of Peter, Not an Apostle of Historic Christianity (Fuller Egyptian and Gnostic Data, with re...
  • Littlest_Bird published this 12 / 05 / 2009
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The Five Theological Orations of Gregory Nazianzen (full book)

The Five Theological Orations, first delivered in AD 379 by Gregory of Nazianzus, one of the three “Cappadocian Fathers” of the early Church, were immediately recognized as a landmark defense of th...
  • pitchford published this 12 / 04 / 2009
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Conspiracies and Competing Gospels: The Canon

Was the New Testament compiled by a central church governing body? How did the 27 books of the NT come to be given the distinction of scripture?
  • jskennedy published this 10 / 14 / 2009
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St Thomas More on the Real Presence

This is an extract from Treatise of the passion, a work by St Thomas More contemplating the passion of Christ. In this extract he shows that the Church fathers believed in the real presence through...
  • robert543 published this 08 / 26 / 2009
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Reform and Resistance: Formations of Female Subjectivity in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Culture by

This study examines the religious roles of women in Germanic Europe from the conversion, focusing particularly on the effect of the Carolingian reform programme. Scheck argues that while the i...
  • liber_te published this 08 / 11 / 2009
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Evolution of the Christian Cross Final

An essay that examines ancient sources and Constan's influence on the evolution of the Cross
  • chucksevers published this 07 / 26 / 2009
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Radical Cartesianism: The French Reception of Descartes by Tad M. Schmaltz

This is the first book-length study of two of Descartes's most innovative successors; Robert Desgabets and Pierre-Sylvain Regis; and of their highly original contributions to Cartesianism. Relating...
  • liber_te published this 07 / 05 / 2009
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Translation Tips on the Greek Church Fathers

How students of New Testament Greek can transform their skills into reading, researching and translating the Church Fathers.
  • amadeus published this 11 / 27 / 2008
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