The Only Church Fathers Worth Knowing are Jerome and Tertullian

The rest are unhinged.  Like this goober-

Pfffffffffftttttttttttttttt.

Truth

It’s the truth.

A Bit of Luther To Cheer You Up

You curse, blaspheme, shriek, struggle, bellow, and spit, so that, if people really heard you utter words, they would gather with chains and bars, just as if you were possessed by a legion of devils and had to be seized and bound. — Martin Luther

The End Game of the Far Right…

Is to make laws that make the Taliban look liberal and Sharia Law look worldly.

The Birth of Heresy

WHEN THE CURATORS OF LEYDEN UNIVERSITY (in the town of the same name in the Netherlands) appointed Jacob Arminius as professor of theology on this day, 8 May 1603, they did not realize what a controversy they were creating. It initially seemed they had made a great choice. Arminius was not only well-educated, but a popular preacher in Amsterdam. In fact, the real difficulty was getting Amsterdam to let him go. He had a lifelong contract with a church there. Furthermore, he said that he found too much theological study dried up his personal spiritual life.

Arminius considered himself a Calvinist, but he was not comfortable with the strict Calvinist view of predestination. Strict Calvinists believed Christ died only for the elect. Arminius held that Christ died for all, although not all would be saved. Not wanting to stir up trouble, when he had to lecture on the topic, he presented a wide range of Scripture with minimal comment. However, by presenting Scriptures that declared that Christ died for all men, he challenged the strict position. He also argued that people have genuine free will and that God’s grace is in most cases resistible, against the strict Calvinist claim of irresistible grace.

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Source.

Like her or Not, AOC is Right About People in Regular Jobs Being Smarter than Those In Congress

And they’re better people too.  Someone asked her if she were ready to return to bartending after the election (smarmily suggesting that she will lose)- She replied

Zwingli for Today, Again

Fear is a cruel adviser. – Huldrych Zwingli

Zwingli For Today

A coachman [i.e., a commoner] does nothing when God burdens and chastises him; he does not acknowledge God until he breaks a wheel or a spoke, and then he says ‘O God!’ –  Huldrych Zwingli

Remembering Thomas Lambdin on the Anniversary of his Passing

Via Jack Sasson, in 2020

I bring the sad news today that our friend and colleague (and my professor and mentor during my undergraduate years), Professor Thomas Oden Lambdin, passed away last Friday at the age of 93, in Manchester, NH (Oct. 31, 1927 — May 8, 2020).

One of the leading scholars of Semitic and Egyptian languages, and a passionate teacher with more introductory grammars (Biblical Hebrew, Sahidic Coptic, Classical Ethiopic, Gothic) than just about anyone, he was appointed as associate professor of Semitic Languages in the NELC Department in 1964. He retired from Harvard in 1983.

Peter Der Manuelian

May he rest in peace everlasting.