The Agape (Love Feasts) in Early Christianity (February 11, 2013)

The New Testament contains cryptic verses about the common meal referred to as a "Love Feast" or Agapae around the Lord's Supper. The following post is a collection of Patristic, Historian and Scripture references to the Common Meal. Here are a few examples, with Jude 12 being the most clear […]

Related: Adolf Von Harnack, Agapae, Agape, Apostolic Constitutions, Apostolic Traditions, Canons of Hippolytus, Common Meal, Didache, Epistula Apostolorum, Eucharist, Hippolytus, History of Dogma, Ignatius, Love Feast, Tertullian

Henry Chadwick (February 27, 2012)

I've been searching for excellent Church History books and a common denominator to most of the lists I've found had Henry Chadwick's "The Early Church: The story of emergent Christianity from the apostolic age to the dividing of the ways between the Greek East and the Latin West" on it. […]

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Christ And Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr (review) (October 20, 2011)

It's almost impossible to engage in a conversation about culture without someone mentioning H. Richard Niehbur's Christ & Culture. I learned about Niehbur through D.A. Carson's magisterial Christ & Culture: Revisited, which I unfortunately read before ...

Related: Al Mohler, Albrecht Ritschl, Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, Christ, Christ and Culture, Culture, ethics, Friedrich Schleiermacher, H. Richard Niebuhr, Helmut Richard Niebuhr, John Calvin, Leo Tolstoy, Niebhur, Paul Tillich, Tertullian, Thomas Jefferson