early church
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Lay Bible Institute Confessing Christ & Living His Mission Week 4-part-1
<p>Prof. Haupt uses Bible verses to demonstrate the role of the Church is to go out and tell all nations of God and what he…
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Lay Bible Institute Confessing Christ & Living His Mission Week 3-part-2
<p>Prof. Haupt continues a look at persecution in the early church and the response to the persecution.</p>
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Lay Bible Institute Confessing Christ & Living His Mission Week 3-part-1
<p>Prof. Haupt uses Bible verses to demonstrate the persecutions and how the early church responded to them.</p>
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Free Will in Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Methodius of Olympus and Athanasius of Alexandria
The following thesis follows the thoughts of four early Eastern Church fathers in regards to free will. Saint Clement of Alexandria, Origen of Alexandria, Saint…
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Recapitulation and Salvation in Irenaeus of Lyon
Irenaeus of Lyon is well known for his use of the term recapitulation (??????????????) in his main work Against Heresies. This thesis examines the intersection…
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The Primitive Advance of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the First and Second Century Church
The core of every religion is the definition of deity. For Christianity, the doctrine of God centers on the confession of the Trinity: God the…
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Early Trinitarianism in the Apostolic Fathers: A Comparative Study of 1 Clement and the Ignatian Corpus
The thesis of this paper is that although Ignatius of Antioch exhibits more explicit trinitarian expressions than I Clement, these two early Christian writings express…
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44 – What do the letters of John tell us about first century Christian congregations?
Dr. Oschwald explains why 1st, 2nd and 3rd John were written.
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63 – What differences exist among Lutherans with respect to polity?
Dr. Schulz explains the different ways a church body can be organized.