William Hemsworth-The Bible Catholic
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In the early church many were attempting to understand the divinity of Christ, and in extension the Holy Trinity. Today, we have the benefit of the Church correcting false ideas. However, when these ideas were formulated there was not a dogmatic decree regarding the Trinity though the dogma had been taught in the earliest days... Continue Reading →
If the Trinity is of such vital important to the faith and to the Christian life, what did the testimony of the patristic fathers have to say about it? This question is asked because it is a question asked by some skeptics of the Trinity dogma. While the Faith is explained in a plain and... Continue Reading →
The Trinity is a doctrine that some have had issue with since the earliest days of Christianity. The great church father, St. Augustine, was not immune to having to deal with Christological heresies. Though the heresies are Christological, they deal with the Trinity because Christ is the second person of the Trinity. If a there... Continue Reading →
Today’s post is a guest article written by Catholic Apologist Eric Shearer. Eric has a blog titled On This Rock Apologetics. He is doing great work for the church and you will be richly blessed by his writing. So go on over and give him a follow. Enjoy the article! _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Not long ago, I was... Continue Reading →
In the second century Gnosticism threatened to tear the young church apart. It was a heresy that taught that all matter was evil, Jesus was spirit, and that true salvific doctrine was passed down through a secret oral tradition[1]. To combat this growing problem the early church father Irenaeus wrote a lengthy treatise titled Against... Continue Reading →
Within Christian theology the term Homoosios holds a very important distinction. The word itself was made famous at the Council of Nicea when the council fathers used it to defend Christ’s deity. The word means “same essence” and was used to say that Christ was of the same essence of the Father. Though all 318... Continue Reading →
Over the course of Church History there were many issues and false teaching that arose. One such false teaching involved a priest by the name of Arius. Arius was a student of Lucian of Alexandria and ordained around 311. He started to make waves when he publicly denied the teaching of the Trinity which was... Continue Reading →
Within the blessed Trinity the three persons of the Godhead are distinct but united in nature. Throughout history many have tried to explain the Trinity in various ways. For example, St. Patrick used the very popular description of the three-leaf clover. In the earliest days of the church a theologian by the name of Tertullian... Continue Reading →
Gordon Fee and St. Gregory of Nazianzus both present the doctrine of the Trinity, but in different ways. St. Gregory goes into a bit more theological depth, and this makes sense. Just five years before St. Gregory’s birth the Council of Nicea met to discuss the Arian controversy. During St. Gregory’s ministry Arianism was particularly... Continue Reading →
William Hemsworth-The Bible Catholic 