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There’s no avoiding the conclusion that Luke-Acts was written by a traveling companion of Paul who had the opportunity to interview eyewitnesses to Jesus’ life while in Jerusalem.
William Lane Craig • On Guard
the Anabaptists were, by overwhelming majority, convinced pacifists. Typical of the movement was Menno Simonsz (1496–1561), the Dutch founder of the Mennonites.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
The most important surviving Cathar tract is The Book of the Two Principles, which was written in the 1240s, probably by John of Lugio, a Cathar from the Albanensian95 school, which was part of the absolutist church of Desenzano. It is ‘the most decisive evidence that the Cathars were evolving their own ideas about the nature of Dualism’,96 and
... See moreSean Martin • The Cathars: The Most Successful Heresy of the Middle Ages
it preserved the New Testament’s
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
THOMAS AQUINAS (b. 1225 or 1226, d. 1274) is regarded as the greatest of scholastic philosophers. In all Catholic educational institutions that teach philosophy his system has to be taught as the only right one; this has been the rule since a rescript of 1879 by Leo XIII.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Jefferson revised the Gospels to make Jesus more reasonable, and lost the power of his story.
Vinson Cunningham • What Thomas Jefferson Could Never Understand About Jesus
model in ministry is a guy who spent the majority of his ministry time with twelve men. A guy who, when he left this earth, had only about 120 people who were actually sticking around and doing what he told them to do. More like a minichurch, really.
David Platt • Radical
the scholastic methodology with its question-and-answer format and the compendium of theology provide the shortest route for a student to grasp the architecture of