Luther before the Diet of Worms
It’s strange that in some 500 years of evangelicalism cutting all theological and practical
ties to the church of the middle ages, it nevertheless ends up looking the same.
Wouldn’t it be nice if sermons could just write themselves?
Learn yo’ self about Arius, who denied the homoousias of Christ
(being the same substance of the Father), and fought for
the heteroousias (being of a different substance than the Father)
Oprah isn’t convinced that Jesus came simply to save sinners, though neither did
the Gnostic, Valentinus some 1700 years before her.
Messin’ with incarnation is risky business.
Cyril of Alexandria, the greatest Honey Badger-Church Father of all time…OF ALL TIME!
The Cappadocian Fathers were always willing to clean-up the Christological
messes of their day and yet for many, remain unnoticed.