Scott Carr, Jr.
Early Church Greatest Hits on Celibacy
The early Christian church’s practice of celibacy has drawn the sustained attention of scholars since the late twentieth century. ...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Apr 29, 2020
- 4 min
Review: The Significance of Singleness by Christian S. Hitchcock
Christina S. Hitchcock’s The Significance of Singleness seeks to address the dearth of theological literature on the subject of...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 9, 2018
- 4 min
How can we best understand who Jesus Christ is and what he means for us?
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...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Aug 1, 2018
- 10 min
Christianity and Islam: The First Meetings
Islam and Christianity have a long and storied history over the past 1400 years, marked by instances of fierce violence,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 8 min
How the Church Fathers Help Us Suffer Well
In recent years, there has been a resurgence in the popularity of the early church fathers, not just amongst pastors and scholars, but...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Ancient Testimonies of the Psalms
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...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Preaching Like Augustine
St. Augustine of Hippo’s treatise on preaching, On Christian Doctrine, has a number of parallels to St. John Chrystostom’s On the...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Expectations for Ministers in the Early Church
St. John Chrystostom’s classic, On the Priesthood, is a sobering work for anyone considering a future in ministry. Over the course of its...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Athanasius and the Incarnation
In his seminal work, On the Incarnation, St. Athanasius of Alexandria presents the incarnation of Christ as the decisive act of God in...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Reading Scripture with Origen
While Origen has been criticized for over-allegorizing Scripture, his own writings attest that he took great care when finding the...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Iranaeus On the Unity of Creation and Redemption
The early Gnostic view of the world is comprised of a complex myths in which the eons, or spiritual powers, are constantly “playing catch...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
The Significance of Martyrdom
In the early church, martyrdom was seen as the moment in which a true Christian attained to God. In his Epistle to the Smyrnaeans,...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
The Didache for the Modern Church
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...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 10 min
What Do We Do With the Teachings of Fallen Ministers?
The Church has always been marked by controversy, but recently, the broad Reformed Evangelical community has been faced with what seems...
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Scott Carr, Jr.
- Nov 15, 2017
- 3 min
Learning Worship from the Church Fathers
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...
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