Bede (c. 672 – May 25, 735) was a monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Wearmouth (today part of Sunderland), and of its daughter monastery, Saint Paul’s, in modern Jarrow. He is well known as an author and scholar, whose best-known work is Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the […]
Faith
On Justification, Faith, Works
PHILLIP SCHAFF 1819-1893 If any one expects to find in this period, or in any of the church fathers, Augustine himself not excepted, the doctrine of justification by faith alone as the “articulus stantis aut cadentis ecclesiae,” he will be greatly disappointed. The incarnation of the Logos, his true divinity and humanity, stand most unmistakably […]
On Faith
by Nikita Grigoriev (excerpts from “Faith And Delusion” pp. 2-5) Faith in General What exactly is faith? Faith is the power of the soul consisting of a synergetic blend of the intellect (reason), the heart (desire) and the will (driving force). This is the most fundamental manifestation of all the properties of the soul, originating, […]
Clement on Faith and Works
Clement of Rome (d. 101 AD) was one of the first, if not the first, Bishop of Rome after the apostles, and certainly a leading member of that church towards the end of the 1st cent. He may have directly worked with the Apostle Paul, and he wrote his own Epistle to the Corinthians (a.k.a. […]