“Suppose someone should be caught in the act of adultery and the foulest crimes and then be thrown into prison. Suppose, next, that judgment was going to be passed against him and that he would be condemned. Suppose that just at that moment a letter should come from the Emperor setting free from any accounting […]
On Grace
1. Clement of Rome (30-100) : “And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all […]
Redefining Tradition
Craig Blaising [excerpt taken from Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism] “The [Eastern] Orthodox extend the locus of divine inspiration and authority beyond the Scripture to the Church itself, specifically to the decisions of the ecumenical councils, but more generally and on a practical level to the entirety of [Eastern] Orthodox tradition. […]
On the Sacraments
from JND Kelly, “Early Christian Doctrines” “IN the fourth and fifth centuries little or no attempt was made, in East or West, to work out a systematic sacramental theology.The universal, if somewhat vague, assumption was [up to this point] that the sacraments were outward and visible signs marking the presence of an invisible, but none […]