By Scott | Published:
November 22, 2009
I’m going to attempt to translate to words something that has long been coalescing in my heart and mind. As such I’ll probably express aspects of it poorly or in ways that are unintentionally difficult for anyone but me to grasp the intended meaning. My thoughts will probably also meander a bit, which I’m sure [...]
Posted in Faith | Also tagged Faith, forgiveness, peace, reality |
By Scott | Published:
August 2, 2009
This letter to the Church of Thibaris was also written to help prepare them for persecution, so it’s similar in context to the last one. And we see a similar theme and place for the Eucharist.
A severer and a fiercer fight is now threatening, for which the soldiers of Christ ought to prepare themselves with [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged baptists, body, cup of christ, eucharist, Faith, heaven, Jesus, protestant church, sbc churches, Southern Baptist, spirit |
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, bishops, body, body and blood, bread and wine, Christian, communion, cornelius, eucharist, Father, God, heaven, lapsed christians, peace, protestants, romans, spirit, spiritual, st cyprian, synod of bishops, theology of the eucharist |
By Scott | Published:
July 28, 2009
I’m now going to move forward a few more decades to a period around 170-180 AD as we focus on Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons. We know that when Irenaeus was young he knew Polycarp. Polycarp, as you may recall, was a disciple of John the Beloved. So there remains a close, direct connection between the [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged apostle, apostles, baptists, celestial beings, Christian, christian gnosticism, dualism, eucharist, evil, Faith, Father, flesh, gnostic heresies, God, heaven, heresies, heretics, irenaeus, Jesus, judgment, love, lyons, old testament, polycarp, prophet, prophets, resurrection, spirit, spiritual, trinity, unity |
By Scott | Published:
July 27, 2009
This post concludes my reflections on Justin Martyr’s First Apology. I saved for last Chapter LXVI which focuses explicitly on the Eucharist.
And this food is called among us Eukaristia [the Eucharist], of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged apostle, apostles, baptists, body, Christian, eucharist, evil, Faith, flesh, God, Holy Scriptures, Jesus, justin martyr, love, new testament, prayer, scripture, Southern Baptist, spirit, zwingli |
By Scott | Published:
July 26, 2009
After an afternoon of rollerskating yesterday, my youngest daughter and I got dinner at the Brick Oven on 35th restaurant. The restaurant is an old house in one of Austin’s older areas near the Seton Medical Center. They have lots of artwork by local artists on display (and for sale) on the walls. The old [...]
By Scott | Published:
July 25, 2009
Now we will move forward several decades and reflect on Justin Martyr’s First Apology. This places us right in the middle of the second century. There are few left alive at this point who personally encountered any of the apostles, but there are still those few. There are now many who have been taught by [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged adaptation, anger, apostle, apostles, baptists, bread and wine, Christian, deacons, episcopal, eucharist, Father, God, Holy Scriptures, Jesus, justin martyr, Orthodox, prayer, prayers, presbyter, presbyters, priests, prophet, prophets, roman catholic, scripture, thanksgiving, torah |
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, bishops, body, Christian, condemnation, Didache, eucharist, evil, Faith, Father, flesh, God, heaven, heretics, Jesus, london confession, love, new testament, prayer, reality, resurrection, scripture, spirit, spiritual, way of life, zwingli |
By Scott | Published:
July 22, 2009
Next, let’s look at the letter of St. Ignatius of Antioch to the Philadelphians. This is a very short letter and I recommend reading the entire letter. For the purpose of this post, though, we’re going to focus on chapter 4.
Be diligent, therefore, to use one eucharist, for there is one flesh of our [...]
Posted in Church History, Eucharist | Also tagged anger, apostle, apostles, baptists, body, body and blood, Christian, christianity, deacons, Didache, eucharist, Faith, flesh, God, Holy Scriptures, Jesus, judaizers, liturgical practice, lord jesus christ, new testament, oneness, philadelphians, physicality, presbyter, presbytery, protestants, reality, schism, schismatic, scripture, st ignatius of antioch, thanksgiving, zwingli |
By Scott | Published:
July 15, 2009
This past weekend a discussion with the Internet Monk, which began for me at least on twitter, emerged in two different posts. In the first, the iMonk posted a link to a sermon by David Chanski on the Baptist view of the Lord’s Supper and his own thoughts on the sermon. The second post responded [...]
Posted in Eucharist | Also tagged baptists, Christian, christianity, communion, corinthians, Didache, eucharist, Faith, Father, Holy Scriptures, london confession, love, oneness, presbyter, schism, schismatic, schisms, scripture, thanksgiving, theology of the eucharist, Twitter, unity, zwingli |