Chrysostom on Matthew 16
Maybe doctrinal development can leap the gap, but it seems a bit far.
Andrew Koperski
Maybe doctrinal development can leap the gap, but it seems a bit far.
A martyrdom story reveals some interesting theological and moral assumptions.
A potpourri of Daniel, Josephus, apocalypticism, and the fate of Jerusalem.
Some Greek translations of Daniel 7 link the "one like a son of man" to God himself.
Ancient literary authenticity may have had more to do with content than who put the words to page.
“For if God is not angered by the impious and the unjust, by no means does he love the pious and the just.”
"You have not experienced Paul until you have read him in the original Aramaic."
One did not publish anything bad about a sitting emperor, unless one was prepared for one's career to end, or worse.
Paul's words closely parallel other Jewish sources in antiquity.
Lactantius demonstrates that some non-Christian theologians had already proposed gender-inclusive divinity.