This may be my last post in the brief series on the origin of the term Biblicist and how the retrieval of its meaning is ignored (mostly by those who laud their efforts at retrieval). In Part 1, I discussed what Matthew Barrett referred to as the first usage of the term in English from 1827. It was a pejorative […]
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Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 7
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 6
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 5
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Letter 167 (Augustine) or 132 (Jerome) [From Augustine to Jerome, on James 2:10 (A.D. 415)] Augustine thought that a prior letter of his had gotten too long, so he states his purpose for discussing …
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as From Augustine to Jerome, On the Origin of the Soul (A.D. 415). Augustine prays that what he’s writing will be profitable to both Jerome and himself. Unto our God, who has called us unto …
Continue reading Augustine (415) – From Augustine to Jerome, on the origin of the soul
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 4
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 3
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 2
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as “On Baptism, Against the Donatists” was written in response to the Donatists who were teaching various doctrines regarding baptism (and, specifically, related to re-baptism of converts to the Church from heretical groups). Augustine addresses …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – On Baptism, Against the Donatists, Book 1
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Of the Good of Widowhood and it is 112 pages long. He begins with an assertion, against Tertullian, that second marriages are not unlawful and that Paul allows them as well. Wherefore this in …
Continue reading Augustine (414) – Of the Good of Widowhood
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …
Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 4
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …
Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 3, Part 2
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …
Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 3, Part 1
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On the Proceedings of Pelagius, is a short volume at around 42 pages. Below is a brief excerpt from the editor of the translation that I used. This is the second and final part …
Continue reading Augustine (417) – On the Proceedings of Pelagius, Part 2
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On the Proceedings of Pelagius, is a short volume at around 42 pages. Below is a brief excerpt from the editor of the translation that I used. “Written about the commencement of the year, …
Continue reading Augustine (417) – On the Proceedings of Pelagius, Part 1
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On Nature and Grace, was a short work at around 50 pages. Extract from Augustine’s Retractions (Book II, Chapter 42): At that time also there came into my hands a certain book of Pelagius’, …
Continue reading Augustine (415) – On Nature and Grace
Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …
Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 46
Baptism is a likeness of death when you go down into the water, and when you rise again it becomes a likeness of resurrection. Thus, according to the interpretation of the apostle, just as Christ’s resurrection was a regeneration, so the resurrection…
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On The Harmony of The Gospels, is an exposition of the 4 Gospels with a purpose of relating their differences and how the differences could be harmonized. It is actually one of his lengthier …
Continue reading Augustine (400) – On The Harmony of The Gospels, Book 2
Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …
Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 7
In Part 6, we discussed how Augustine would have refuted such claims that he either remained a Manichee or that he would sneak in some of their beliefs which were not in the Christian Church up to that point. As I have been continuing my reading through Augustine’s works, I came across some direct refutations …
In one of the earliest known writings, we see yet more evidence that the practice of baptism was always by immersion as the normative practice of the Church. I always find it humorous (and by humorous, I mean ludicrous) when Presbyterians attempt to eisegete the Scripture by saying that when Jesus was said to have …
Continue reading The Epistle of Barnabas (~130): Baptism Is By Immersion
The Judiciary Department From McLEAN’S Edition Wednesday, May 28, 1788 By: Alexander Hamilton There are 3 primary objectives to this Paper – How to appoint judges, how long they should remain in their appointment, and the separation between courts/how they relate to each other. The manner of constituting it seems to embrace these several objects: …
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This may seem like a strange topic; I admit that it is one that we don’t normally discuss. But I would like to know if your church would not allow Augustine to partake of the Lord’s Supper if he were to pop out of history and show up at your Church’s door on a Sunday …
Continue reading Would Your Church Admit Augustine to The Table? Some Reformed Churches Would Not.
Augustine worked on his Exposition of the Psalms over the course of 30 years as he preached or taught through them. As I’ve been reading through Augustine’s works and posting highlights from them, I’ll also be slowly posting through his works on the Psalms. While Augustine is typically known for “City of God” being his …
Continue reading Augustine’s Exposition of Psalm 6
The Same Subject Continued (The Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered) From the New York Packet Tuesday, December 25, 1787 By Alexander Hamilton The Anti-Federalists, it would appear, were decrying the Constitution because they thought that it would require military force in order to execute the laws. Hamilton …
According to the Platonists, then, the gods, who occupy the highest place, enjoy eternal blessedness, or blessed eternity; men, who occupy the lowest, a mortal misery, or a miserable mortality; and the demons, who occupy the mean, a miserable eternity, or an eternal misery. … But if, as is much more probable and credible, it …
Continue reading Augustine On Our One True Mediator
As, then, there are two regenerations, of which I have already made mention,-the one according to faith, and which takes place in the present life by means of baptism; the other according to the flesh, and which shall be accomplished in its incorruption and immortality by means of the great and final judgment,-so are there …
Continue reading Augustine on Regeneration and Resurrection
Introduction Recently, Dr. James White has been interacting quite a bit with Dr. Ken Wilson’s book (and dissertation) regarding Augustine’s “conversion” to a predestinarian. As I have been reading much of Augustine’s work lately as well as other Church Fathers, I felt that I should enter this discussion with a layman’s perspective. Since Dr. Wilson’s dissertation is available to freely view …
Continue reading Discussing Ken Wilson’s Work, Part 12 – On Psalm 51 and Concupiscence
