By Scott | Published:
February 15, 2010
The tenth and final chapter of Thomas Howard’s book, Envoi, stresses that all Christians engaged in this discussion are, or should be allies, and not enemies. While some embrace modern Christian divisions and pluralism (unfortunately including my own SBC denomination as illustrated in a recent issue of the SBTC Texan), most Christians recognize the wrongness [...]
Posted in Evangelical Is Not Enough | Also tagged christians, deacon, deacons, enemies, eucharist, holy scripture, Holy Scriptures, islam, judaism, liturgy, love, pluralism, presbyter, thomas howard, time |
By Scott | Published:
February 8, 2010
The sixth chapter in Thomas Howard’s book, Ritual and Ceremony: A dead Hand or the Liberty of the Spirit?, opens with the note that when the early Christians met for worship, everyone present was a full participant.
Bishops, priests, deacons, and laity were the four orders in the Church that we glimpse in the New Testament [...]
By Scott | Published:
January 18, 2010
During the press of the holidays, illness, and all the rest that has been happening, I’ve fallen pretty far behind in this series. I’m going to work to catch up this week. I find both Fr. Schmemann’s book and Dn. Hyatt’s podcasts on that book fascinating and illuminating.
The discussion now moves from baptism to chrismation [...]
Posted in For the Life of the World | Also tagged baptism, chrismation, communion, deacon, deacons, episcopal, holy spirit, michael hyatt, Orthodox, orthodox church, presbyter, priests |
By Scott | Published:
August 13, 2009
Before I dive into Nicaea, about which myths seem to abound, I wanted to reflect on some of the implications of the earlier posts in this series. It should be clear by this point that the Church and those within it had no real input on whether they would be persecuted or not. There are [...]
By Scott | Published:
August 1, 2009
Now we move right to the middle of the third century with St. Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage. Today, we’ll look at his letter to St. Cornelius, Bishop of Rome. (As an interesting side note that I’m not sure many Protestants know, the Latin papa (or pappa) meaning ‘father’ is the word that Romans in particular [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged anger, baptists, bishop of rome, body, body and blood, bread and wine, Christian, communion, cornelius, eucharist, Father, God, heaven, lapsed christians, peace, person, protestants, romans, spirit, spiritual, st cyprian, synod of bishops, theology of the eucharist |
By Scott | Published:
July 24, 2009
I decided to open and close the posts in this series reflecting on St. Ignatius with different chapters in his letter to the Smyrnaeans. In my first look at this letter, I focused on chapter 8. In this post I’m going to consider chapter 6.
Let no man be deceived. Even the heavenly things, and the [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged ancient christian writings, apostle, apostles, baptist belief, baptists, body, Christian, condemnation, Didache, eucharist, evil, Faith, Father, flesh, God, heaven, heretics, Jesus, london confession, love, new testament, person, prayer, reality, resurrection, scripture, spirit, spiritual, way of life, zwingli |
By Scott | Published:
July 19, 2009
Having already reflected on the Didache or Teaching in my previous series, I want to begin our exploration of the historical view of the Eucharist with the Letter of Clement, Bishop of Rome, to the Corinthian Church. This letter was written in the late first century. Some date it as early as 70 AD. Others [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged apostle, apostles, baptists, bishop of rome, Christian, church structure, corinthian church, corinthians, deacons, Didache, eucharist, Holy Scriptures, humility, Jesus, lord jesus christ, new testament, old testament, oral tradition, presbyter, presbyters, schism, schisms, scripture, septuagint, unity |
By Scott | Published:
July 12, 2009
This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately.
Appoint, therefore, for yourselves, bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men meek, and not lovers of money, and truthful and proved; for they also render to you the service of prophets and teachers. Therefore do not despise [...]
Posted in Didache | Also tagged Christian, christianity, deacons, Didache, love, money, person, presbyter, presbyters, priests, prophet, prophets, romans |
By Scott | Published:
July 10, 2009
This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately.
But every true prophet who wants to live among you is worthy of his support. So also a true teacher is himself worthy, as the workman, of his support. Every first-fruit, therefore, of the products of wine-press and threshing-floor, [...]
Posted in Didache | Also tagged apostle, apostles, barnabus, Christian, christianity, Didache, early christian writings, high priest, money, priests, prophet, prophets, unity |
By Scott | Published:
May 27, 2009
I love listening to Phyllis Tickle. I’ve listened to her speak a number of times over the years (via mp3) and have loved every instance. I believe The Great Emergence is the first book by her I’ve read, though I do have The Words of Jesus waiting on my shelf. I also realize that everyone [...]
Posted in Book Reviews | Also tagged Celiac, Christian, christian history, christianity, constantinople, God, great schism, imperial history, islam, Jesus, love, Orthodox, orthodox church, orthodoxy, roman empire, schism, spirit |