“though the divide between mainstream American life and traditional Christianity is growing, we are not at the point where the Early Church started. Cultural hostility and social media cancellation ...
It would actually come to threaten the very gates of Vienna. So, Islam was not far away. The basic teaching of the Reformers was the teaching of the medieval church as well: Muhammad was a false ...
THOMAS: To immediately apply our current eschatological categories to the Reformers would be anachronistic ... The concept within Matthew 16, “I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not ...
This understanding of the atonement is right in what it affirms, though there is nothing about the satisfaction of divine wrath and little about Christ bearing the penalty of sin. In this popular and ...
This church was "discovered" by Portuguese missionaries in the 16th century. After attempts to "latinize" the rite, many broke away to form their own rite under the control of the Syrian Patriarch.
Through Baptism we are freed from sin and reborn as sons of God; we become members of Christ, are incorporated into the Church and made sharers in her mission: "Baptism is the sacrament of ...