Tag: church history
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Augustine on Galatians 3.28 (“Neither Jew nor Greek…”)
I had known, for some time now, about an interesting comment made by St. Augustine of Hippo in regards to the well-known Galatians 3.28 (“There is neither Jew nor Greek…” etc.). While I knew where to find it in Latin, unfortunately all of the English translations I could find were secondary sources quoting it only…
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Saint Augustine on the Collapse of Society and Family (and on Faith in the Unseen)
Disclaimer: I had started planning this post in December of 2022. However, various personal commitments prevented me from finishing what I had started over the past few or so months. Apologies for the delay in posting. In my spare time, I decided to read one of the shorter books of Saint Augustine of Hippo. That…
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Do Pagans Worship the Lord? A Christian Perspective
This is a follow-up to “Pagan Romans Claimed to Worship the God of Abraham“. For context, if you haven’t already done so, please read that article first! As discussed previously, pagans in ancient Greece and Rome believed the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to actually be one of their own idols under a…
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Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost: A Big Compilation of Different Thoughts
The blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is a topic that many Bible readers have debated over the centuries. Different people have had different understandings of what exactly this “blasphemy” is and why it’s unforgivable. I decided to compile the commentaries of these writers into one article, so that the reader can see different views on…
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Church Fathers on ‘Hate Father and Mother’ (Luke 14.26) (Mirror/Transcription from City-Data.com)
This is a re-upload/transcription of a post from the City-Data.com forums made by the user “MPHJ7”, in the 13th of October 2021 – it’s comments on Luke 14.26 using quotes from St. Clement of Alexandria, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Augustine of Hippo. The post is titled, “How Ancient Christians Read “Hate Father and Mother”…
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4th Century or 21st? – Saint Basil on the State of the Church (Epist. 92) and My Thoughts On It
Recently I had stumbled across a quote from Saint Basil of Caesarea that I found very interesting. I looked up the source and found that it was from his Letters, namely letter XCII (92), with the translation found in Nicene Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II, Volume VIII. In his letter, Basil laments the current state of…
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God-Emperor Jesus – Excerpt from Tom Holland’s Dominion and My Thoughts On It
One of the books I have been reading lately is “Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind” by the British author Tom Holland. It’s a non-fiction work that goes over the history of Western civilization, with a particular focus on Christianity. It’s main topic is how mindsets and worldviews evolved, so one of the things…