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The Anabaptist Story: A Book Review

*Click on the link at the bottom of the post to read the entire review. William R. Estep, Jr., The Anabaptist Story, 3rd Edition (Eerdmans, 1995). William R. Estep (1920–2000) was a historian who served as a distinguished professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) from 1954–1990, though he continued to teach…

August 6, 2019 in baptism, Church History, Historical Theology, history, Resources, Theology.

A Review of Peter Brown’s Important Biography of Augustine: The Bishop of Hippo

  Brown, Peter. Augustine of Hippo: A Biography. Berkeley, CA: University of California                          Press, 2013. 568 pages. $29.95 Biographical Sketch of the Author Writing a biography of a monumental figure such as Augustine is no small task. Augustine stands atop the mountain of…

August 2, 2018 in Church History, Historical Theology, history, Theology.

A Pastor’s Thoughts on Reading Augustine

Augustine’s influence is profound, his depth of insight stunning, and his literary output insane. Isidore of Seville (AD 560-636) once said that if anyone claimed to have read all Augustine wrote, they were lying. The progress I’ve made in Augustine is minimal and I’m far from an authority on his writing and theology. However, after…

July 3, 2018 in Church History, Historical Theology, history, Theology.

The Church Moves East and We Meet Ephrem, An Obscure but Significant Theologian

The Eastward Expansion of the Church In AD 66, the Jews rebelled against the occupying Romans, with the Romans putting an end to the rebellion in AD 70 (read more here). During this time, Jewish Christians fled for safety east of the Jordan River to a town named Pella. Bryan Litfin writes, “From there the…

April 26, 2018 in Church History, Historical Theology, Theology.

4 Important Events for Christianity & Theology that took place under Constantine’s reign.

Official persecution was lifted and being a Christian — at least in name — became popular and prudent. Constantine left Rome and built a “new Rome” in the East as the new imperial capital of the empire. He chose the city of Byzantium (today’s Istanbul in Turkey) and renamed it after himself: Constantinople. The most…

March 14, 2017 in Resources, Theology.
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