Christian History Home > 1996 > Issue 51
Heresy in the Early Church: Did You Know?
Remarkable or little-known facts about heresy in the early church
Tony Lane is director of research and senior lecturer in Christian doctrine at London Bible College. He is author of "Exploring Christian Thought" (Nelson, 1996) and a CHRISTIAN HISTORY adviser.
Heresy in the Early Church: From the Editor - How to Read This Issue
Mark Galli, Editor
A Hammer Struck at Heresy
What exactly happened at the famous Council of Nicea, when the Roman emperor convened some 250 quarreling Christian bishops?
ROBERT PAYNE
The King Visits Earth
The champion of orthodoxy on why the Word became flesh.
Heresy in the Early Church: Christian History Infographic - Sifting Through the Christ Controversies
A quick summary of the competing schools of thought.
the Editors
Fine-Tuning the Incarnation
A lot of mistakes were made before the church figured out how best to describe Jesus Christ.
Bruce L. Shelley
The Defining Moment
Key portions of the church's most important theological statement
Finding the Truth
How the earliest church decided Marcion and the Gnostics, among others, were wrong.
GUSTO GONZLEZ, JR.
Why Bishops Should Be Trusted
When some early Christians said they had secret apostolic teaching, one church father said, "Not likely."
Heresy in the Early Church: A Gallery of Malcontents for Christ
The mixed motives and odd teachings of four notorious heretics
Stephen Miller is a free-lance writer and former editor of Illustrated Bible Life. He is a member of CHRISTIAN HISTORY's editorial advisory board.
Origen: Model or Heretic?
He created controversy when he tried to explain the gospel in terms his culture could grasp.
Kenneth R. Calvert
Heresy in the Early Church: Christian History Timeline
Bradley Nassif is visiting professor of Eastern Orthodoxy at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. He is editor of New Perspectives on Historical Theology (Eerdmans, 1996).
Testing the Prophets
In the Montanist controversy, did the church reject heresy or the Holy Spirit?
Jim Smith is pastor of Clairemont Emmanuel Baptist Church, adjunct professor at Bethel Theological Seminary West (both in San Diego, California), and an editorial adviser for CHRISTIAN HISTORY.
Risky Lifestyles
It wasn't just what Christians believed but also how they lived that concerned early church teachers.
Robert Krupp is a librarian at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois. He is author of Shepherding the Flock of God: The Pastoral Theology of John Chrysostom (Peter Lang, 1991).
Heresy in the Early Church: Christian History Interview - The Search for the Biblical Jesus
The hard, technical, theological work on Christ was essentially a 400-year Bible study.
interview with Thomas Oden
Heresy in the Early Church: Recommended Resources
David Wright is senior lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an editorial adviser for CHRISTIAN HISTORY.
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