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Recently, there has been some renewed focus on church history and what we believe regarding the presence of Christ in the Lord’s Supper, or Communion. Francis Chan made some statements to the effect that he didn’t know that for basically 1,500 years of church history – up to the Reformation – that everyone believed …
Continue reading Augustine (408) – Letter 98 to Boniface Regarding The Elements of Communion
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Acts or Disputation Against Fortunatus (or sometimes Debate with Fortunatus, the Manichee), is 32 pages. There were a couple of days that Augustine debated with Fortunatus and the proceedings are related to us in …
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as On the Spirit and the Letter, comes in at around 109 pages. As seen below from his “Retractions”, he states that he wrote this to discuss Paul’s statement that “The letter kills, but the …
A book series that I’ve been reading lately is “The Chronicle of Maud” (available at Amazon) by my friend, Amy Mantravadi. It’s historical fiction based on the life of Empress Mathilda (Maud) in the 12th Century. Currently, two of the three books have been published. I highly recommend them, and in my opinion, this second …
Augustine’s exposition begins with an odd reference to David drumming. This is referring to 1 Samuel 21 where David is said to have “made marks on the doors of the gate”. It would appear that one possible interpretation was that David was continually beating upon the doors and Augustine took that to mean that he …
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Of the Works of Monks. It is rather short, at just around 42 pages. Augustine wrote the following in his Retractions regarding why he wrote this work To write the Book …
Continue reading Augustine (401) – Of the Works of Monks (Especially those with long hair!)
While I understand the desire to be Biblical in the belief that there is maintained by God the Old Covenant principle of the inclusion, by default, of all members of a household into the New Covenant, I am firmly convinced that this is not the case. There is an abundance of proof in God’s revelation …
Continue reading 1 Corinthians 7 and Household Covenant Inclusion
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This work, is known as Letter 144 [Letter CXLIV. From Augustine to Optatus.] This is a rather shorter letter and not too much stood out to me. Some details about this letter per the editor: Augustine writes to …
Augustine begins with a question of wheter all of the Psalms can be called Songs. He said that those sung to the Psaltery are Psalms which history states that David used. But he doesn’t discuss this further and would rather proceed discussing Jesus’s Resurrection. Now it may be a question, whether every Song be a …
Thanks for reading this latest installment from my current project of reading (and blogging) through Augustine’s works. This book, known as Concerning Faith of Things Not Seen, is one of Augustine’s longest shortest works at only around 14 pages. According to the editor of “Complete Works of the Church Fathers”, “This tract was thought spurious …
