Articles in this Issue
Heresy in the Early Church: Did You Know?
Remarkable or little-known facts about heresy in the early church
A Hammer Struck at Heresy
What exactly happened at the famous Council of Nicea, when the Roman emperor convened some 250 quarreling Christian bishops?
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.
Fine-Tuning the Incarnation
A lot of mistakes were made before the church figured out how best to describe Jesus Christ.
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.
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
Origen: Model or Heretic?
He created controversy when he tried to explain the gospel in terms his culture could grasp.
Testing the Prophets
In the Montanist controversy, did the church reject heresy or the Holy Spirit?
Risky Lifestyles
It wasn’t just what Christians believed but also how they lived that concerned early church teachers.
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.