I am grateful to Wipf & Stock Publishers for granting permission to place on-line the following article on the ecclesiology of the Cappadocian Fathers: Basil of Caesarea, Gergory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus. Donald A. Sykes, “Understandings of the Church in the Cappadocians,” Horton Davies, ed., Studies of the Church in History. Essays Honoring…
I read recently on one of Ben Witherington’s post on Facebook that Gordon Fee’s 1966 Ph.D. Thesis on the Bodmer Papyri was now available on-line (here). This reminded me that some years ago I received permission to place Edward J. Young’s Ph.D. Thesis online. Edward J. Young, “Biblical Criticism in the Second Century” (Ph.D. diss.,…
The following Public Domain articles from the Journal of Theological Studies relating to early church history are now available on-line in PDF: William Sanday [1843–1920], “Recent Research on the Origin of the Creed.” Journal of Theological Studies 1 No 1 (Oct. 1899): 3-22. William Sanday [1843–1920], “Further Research on the History of the Creed,” Journal…
The following article is now available on-line in PDF Gerald Bray, “The Doctrine of the Trinity in Augustine’s De Civitate Dei,” European Journal of Theology 1.2 (1992): 141-150. Click here to read. My thanks to Professor Bray for his kind permission.
Here is a sample chapter from Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth.that covers the early church’s interpretation of Genesis 1-11, a subject that I have spent some time researching in the past. Well worth a read.
The following article is now on-line in PDF: F.F. Bruce, “Church History and Its Lessons,” J.B. Watson, ed., The Church: A Symposium. London: Pickering & Inglis, Ltd., 1949. pp.178-95. George Santayana famous said that “Those who fail to learn the lessons that history teaches, are doomed to repeat them”. It is therefore helpful to some…
