Proto-Protestantism

In terms of philosophical analogy, the Biblicism being advocated here is akin to the Correspondence Theory of Truth - the Logos-Scriptures b...

Historians have long debated the relationship between the Cynics and early Christianity. There are some striking similarities to be found in...

To me the issue is not about specifically paying usury or even enabling those who sin by taking it from me. I don't expect otherwise fro...

...Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jTld1nmkq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpVz4okhdRU Several weeks ago I caught Jordan Cooper's vide...

https://gospelreformation.net/dear-pastor-may-my-child-take-the-lords-supper/ Spinnenweber is to be commended as he covers all the bases a...

https://jacobrcrouch.wordpress.com/2024/11/01/train-your-kids-to-be-christians/ There is much that is positive in this article and I do not...

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/11/the-new-divide-in-global-anglicanism This article interested me because it's connec...

For more than twenty years I have been fascinated by various similarities between aspects of ancient Greek philosophy and that of ancient In...

I recently had a nice long chat with an Anglo-Catholic priest and we discussed the issue of authority and how their understanding differs fr...

Driving home from a rather High-Church Anglican service, I reflected on the many different understandings of worship and the relationship (i...

I was asked to elaborate a bit on the question of proto-Protestantism's relationship to Magisterial Protestantism and the question of co...

In a Journal of Early Christian Studies article from the 1990's David Hunter argues contrary to Jerome and later interpreters (such as ...

The problems that Berkhof refers to concerning the Godhead and the Incarnation are dilemmas only for the systematician who thinks he can dis...

Louis Berkhof's The History of Christian Doctrines (published in 1937) is a great resource if one is looking for a broad overview of hi...

As mentioned previously contemporary Evangelicals and Confessional Protestants are quick to adopt the canons and concepts of Higher Criticis...

http://proto-protestantism.blogspot.com/2022/12/gems-from-shepherd-of-hermas.html In light of recent statements regarding the Early Church...

It's been quite a few years since I read The Shepherd of Hermas. Reading it anew I was reminded of how alien it is to Evangelical sensib...

Recently re-reading some Early Church Fathers, I was both pleased and inspired to discover this exhortation on the part of Ignatius of Antio...