Category Archives: Church Fathers

The Atonement Wars: What the Church Fathers Actually Wrote

Since I blog on the intersection of faith and science, and since the question of how the evolutionary origin of mankind is sometimes thought to impact the meaning of Christ’s atonement, I have recently done some reading on the subject. … Continue reading

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The Early Church Fathers, 100-200 A.D. : A Pleasant Surprise

For some years I was, like most American evangelicals, almost completely ignorant of the pulse of Christianity between the close of the Book of Acts (~62 A.D.) and the appearance of the full-fledged medieval Roman Catholic church.  Although there were … Continue reading

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