An eighth-century iconodule tract claims that the iconoclasts have “perpetuated the work of the Jews,” and compared the iconoclasts to Jewish priests conspiring against Christ. Like many other ironodule treatises, it accused the Jews of corrupting the minds of iconoclast emperors. . . . . Continue Reading »
Constantine has often been blamed for mistreatment of Jews in the Roman empire, but that blame has been misplaced. He did little to change the legal status of Jews or tighten restrictions on them. Guy Stroumsa, however, has suggested that Constantine had a more subtle role in a . . . . Continue Reading »
In the same 2003 article, Cameron comments on the iconodule use of heresiological methods in dealing with the iconoclasts after the Second Council of Nicea: ”the victorious iconophiles hada strong interest in endorsing their council as the seventh and culminating representative of a . . . . Continue Reading »
Epiphanius’s Panarion or Medicine Chest was a compendium of heresies and their cures, and inspired an entire genre of “heresiologies.” The book is often dismissed with some hostility by Byzantine historians, but Averil Cameron notes that it displays some literary skill. . . . . Continue Reading »
Bulgakov writes, “By nourishment in the broadest sense we mean the most general metabolic exchange between the living organism and its environment, including not just food but respiration and the effects of the atmosphere, light, electricity, chemistry, and other forces acting on our . . . . Continue Reading »
INTRODUCTION Parenting is future-oriented. You are raising children to be faithful disciples of Jesus in the next generation. We can do that well only when we parent in the Spirit, since the Spirit is the Spirit who makes future. THE TEXT “For we know that if our earthly house, . . . . Continue Reading »
Colossians 2:20-23: If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as, Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch! (which all refer to things destined to perish with use) – . . . . Continue Reading »
For both parents and children, sexual purity is essential to Christian living and to Christian family life. Paul tells the Thessalonians that God wants His people to be holy. This means avoiding adultery, pornography, sodomy, pre-marital sex, lust and all other forms of sexual sin (1 . . . . Continue Reading »
In a provocative 2006 article in the Intercollegiate Studies Review , Remi Brague asks whether non-theocratic polities are possible. If “theocracy” means “rule by clerics,” the answer is obviously Yes. But Brague doesn’t think that’s the most helpful . . . . Continue Reading »
John R. Levison’s Filled with the Spirit challenges “two-tiered” readings of biblical pneumatology such as that found in Hermann Gunkel: “The activity of the Spirit is . . . not an intensifying of what is native to all. It is rather the absolutely supernatural and . . . . Continue Reading »
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