Mar

21

Joel Osteen is alright with me

March 21, 2008 | 4 Comments

Posted by Samson · Filed Under Evangelicalism, Church History 

 Don’t cry to me.

Feb

2

Heterodoxy (Better than Heresy!)

February 2, 2008 | 2 Comments

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Church History, Eschatology, Uncategorized 

I was doing more reading on the internet about Apocatastasis, Gregory of Nyssa, Universal Reconciliation and ended up reading about heterodoxy and I realized that my views can better be considered as heterodox opinions as opposed to heretical. That sounds better! I don’t want to be a heretic.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy
“Whenever Eastern Orthodoxy wants to classify […]

Jan

25

Call Me a Heretic

January 25, 2008 | 14 Comments

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Philosophy, Church History 

There’s a fellow over on the Parchment and Pen blog that often talks about people being heretics and today he was talking about Origen being considered a heretic.  I started looking around the internet about hereticism and came across a lot of interesting things about Christian Universal Reconcilation (UR) — God will save and has […]

Nov

15

A Response to an Orthodox Concerning Calvinism and Romans 9

November 15, 2007 | 4 Comments

Posted by michaelp · Filed Under Eastern Orthodoxy, Evangelicalism, Calvinism/Arminianism, Christian Traditions, Church History 

I received this from an Orthodox gentleman: 
If Romans 9 teaches Calvinism so clearly, why didn’t the Greeks, who spoke in the koine dialect for more than a thousand years after Christ (and who still speak modern Greek) understand Paul in this way?  The prophets of the Old Testament, and even the Roman Jews to whom […]

Oct

11

St. John Chrysostom

October 11, 2007 | 3 Comments

Posted by joanied · Filed Under Christian Traditions, Christian Philosophy, New Testament, Church History 

St. John Chrysostom was born in 347 in Antioch, Syria. I read that Ben Witherington is a big fan of the man, so I read a bit about St. John Chrysostom and then happened upon his homily on the Gospel of Matthew. Here’s one of the things he says:
“Reflect then how great an evil it […]

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