Wolfhart Pannenberg on the History of Christology (June 9, 2014)

Wolfhart Pannenberg speaking at a CDU conference in Bonn, 1983 In Wolfhart Pannenberg's famous Christology book, Jesus: God and Man, he provided an impressive outline of how Christology as a dogma had developed historically. All Christian doctrines develop over time as the Church revises its talk about God, as Karl Barth would […]

Related: Albert Schweitzer, Anselm, Anselm of Canterbury, Athanasius, Friedrich Gogarten, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Irenaeus, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Martin Luther, Paul of Samosata, Rudolf Bultmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg

The Allegorical Interpretation of Creation by the Early Church Fathers (January 11, 2013)

I've compile several quotations by Early Church Fathers showing their unified allegorical interpretation of the Genesis 1-2 narrative. Irenaeus, Barnabus, Augustine, Origen, and Basil the Great are available online here: http://www.ccel.org/index/author. There are other quotations by Early Church Fathers, but this displays how the allegorical method was used in the early church. […]

Related: Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, barnabas, Basil, Basil the Great, Early Church Father, Irenaeus, Literal Interpretation of Genesis