White Supremacist Ideas Have Historical Roots In U.S. Christianity : NPR — Read on http://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/883115867/white-supremacist-ideas-have-historical-roots-in-u-s-christianity
Category: Historical Theology
Studying Christian theology via the thoughts of other Christians throughout the centuries. Historical Theology can be subdivided by era: The Patristic Period (1st through 8th centuries), The Ante-Nicene Fathers (1st to 3rd centuries), The Nicene Fathers (4th century), The Post-Nicene Fathers (5th to 8th centuries), The Middle Ages (8th to 16th centuries), The Reformation and Counter-Reformation (16th to 18th centuries), The Modern Period (18th to 21st centuries).
Resource Share: Racism Results from Protestant Heresies | @mako_nagasawa
Resource share: Systemic Racism results from Protestant heresies. European Protestants wanted to make quick money in a legal gray zone in the colonies. Slavery was illegal in England, legal in the colonies. Seizing land was illegal in England, but legal in the colonies...— Mako Nagasawa (@mako_nagasawa) June 23, 2020 ...on the basis of "being more …
Continue reading Resource Share: Racism Results from Protestant Heresies | @mako_nagasawa
Thread by @mboorstein: The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at – tells the @washingtonpost she is “outraged” and that neither…
Thread by @mboorstein: The Episcopal bishop of DC – who oversees the DC church Trump just stopped at – tells the @washingtonpost she is "outd that neither she nor the rector was asked or told… “that they would be clearing with tear gas so they could use… — Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1267607428293636096.html
Thread by @NyashaJunior on Resources for Knowing the Differences & Similarities between Amish, Mennonite, and Quaker Faith Traditions
Thread by @NyashaJunior: Digital Quaker Collection esr.earlham.edu/dqc/index.html @ESRQuaker #AmRel Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies palni.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec… @earlham1847 #AmRel Mennonites, Amish, and the Pennsylvania Dutch Language anab… — Read on threadreaderapp.com/thread/1266736819242139650.html
Bart Ehrman on why everything you’ve been told about heaven and hell is wrong
(RNS) — Best known for his popular books debunking the central assumptions of Christian Scriptures, the New Testament scholar continues this quest in his latest book, ‘Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife.’ — Read on religionnews.com/2020/03/26/bart-ehrman-on-why-everything-youve-been-told-about-heaven-and-hell-is-wrong/
Meghan Henning: Does Hell Exist? – Pete Enns
Meghan Henning is on the podcast answering the question: Does hell exist? She clues us into how ancient people would have approached this question — Read on peteenns.com/meghan-henning-does-hell-exist/
5 Major Reasons I Still Believe Jesus
I accept the gospels, not b/c of their inerrancy, but b/c of their having been received/approved by a community as accurate to their accounts, which accounts undermined the Roman Empire & 2nd Temple Judaism. I believe it just as I believe indigenous history v. USA’s version. — Lamb's Harbinger (aka @OtterFella) (@LambsHarbinger) October 24, 2019 …
How St. Augustine Invented Sex | The New Yorker
He rescued Adam and Eve from obscurity, devised the doctrine of original sin—and the rest is sexual history. — Read on http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/19/how-st-augustine-invented-sex
Why ALL Universalism is Heresy
All universalism is heresy. That is, it is anti-Christ in its various assertions, which is to say Universalism (in any of its forms) works systematically opposite of worshipping Jesus as THE active judge of the cosmos. Reducing Jesus' statements about His role as universal Judge to Jesus' acting as a combination of time dispensor and …
How Universalism, ‘the Opiate of the Theologians,’ Went Mainstream | Christianity Today
How Universalism, ‘the Opiate of the Theologians,’ Went Mainstream | Christianity Today — Read on http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/march-web-only/michael-mcclymond-devils-redemption-universalism.html