Sublime

He founded a new religion, which was the opposite of the city religion. He was justly accused of not adoring the gods whom the state adored.

Collins perceptively points out that eternal salvation (whether conceived as a timeless or an endless existence) is incompatible with any form of personal agency. “I would ask any reader who may think it possible to know what eternal happiness might be like: if it is timeless, how are you present, and if it is endless, what possible well-being coul

Conversion Is Real

The true Christian cannot be hid, he cannot escape notice. A man truly living and functioning as a Christian will stand out. He will be like salt; he will be like a city set upon a hill, a candle set upon a candlestick. But we can also add this further word. The true Christian does not even desire to hide his light. He sees how ridiculous it is to

Concern for Nominal Christians of Specific Types

As against the Manichæans, who were dualists, Augustine came to believe that evil originates not from some substance, but from perverseness of will.

Amongst the Bogomils whose names have survived are Jeremiah (thought by some to be the pseudonym of Bogomil himself), who wrote the widely circulated tract The Legend of the Cross,