The early Christian church’s practice of celibacy has drawn the sustained attention of scholars since the late twentieth century. ...

Christina S. Hitchcock’s The Significance of Singleness seeks to address the dearth of theological literature on the subject of...

Some say that Jesus is “one mind, one soul, one being, as truly one as we are, and equally distinct from the one God” [1]. Some say it...

Islam and Christianity have a long and storied history over the past 1400 years, marked by instances of fierce violence,...

In recent years, there has been a resurgence in the popularity of the early church fathers, not just amongst pastors and scholars, but...

While God speaks through the entirety of the Scriptures, the Psalms have played a unique and special role in the life of the church. They...

St. Augustine of Hippo’s treatise on preaching, On Christian Doctrine, has a number of parallels to St. John Chrystostom’s On the...

St. John Chrystostom’s classic, On the Priesthood, is a sobering work for anyone considering a future in ministry. Over the course of its...

In his seminal work, On the Incarnation, St. Athanasius of Alexandria presents the incarnation of Christ as the decisive act of God in...

While Origen has been criticized for over-allegorizing Scripture, his own writings attest that he took great care when finding the...

The early Gnostic view of the world is comprised of a complex myths in which the eons, or spiritual powers, are constantly “playing catch...

In the early church, martyrdom was seen as the moment in which a true Christian attained to God. In his Epistle to the Smyrnaeans,...

The Didache serves as an early Christian manual for how believers are to live within the new faith and the young church. Its author sees...

The Church has always been marked by controversy, but recently, the broad Reformed Evangelical community has been faced with what seems...

In a post-Reformation church, the sacraments have been down played in the life of the church out of a concern to ensure Christians are...