Bedeviled – Medieval Demonology and Its Relationship to Women’s Sexuality

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” So writes William Faulkner in his 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun. Advances in traumatology have served to demonstrate that this literary aphorism is also a clinical truism. Trauma haunts the stories of victims, and it deeply colors our institutional and religious histories. Evangelical thinkers do … Read more

Athanasius and the Development of Post-Nicene Pneumatology

The original Nicene Creed of 325 includes robust theological confessions pertaining to the Father and the Son. However, the Creed gave the Spirit scant attention, merely including “And in the Holy Spirit” concerning the third Person of the Trinity. Over fifty years later at the Council of Constantinople, the Creed enhanced significantly the confession of … Read more

AN ANALYSIS OF THE REGULA FIDEI AND THE BAPTISMAL CONFESSION IN THE EARLY CHURCH

Early church historians generally agree on what constituted the earliest rudimentary form of the creed known as the regula fidei. However, the relationship between this proto-creed and the versions of the baptismal confession, occasionally produces some scholarly debates. For example, while some scholars like Adolf von Harnack, argue that the regula fidei was kind of … Read more

Nicaean Unity and Diversity: Dynamic Doctrine for Diverse Contexts

Recovery of Walter Bauer’s Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity sparked popular and academic intrigue at the turn of the twenty-first century. Critics like Ehrman and Pagels introduced Bauer’s thesis of a strong-armed orthodoxy rooting out viable Christian traditions, and evangelicals like Köstenberger and Kruger responded with biblical and historical defenses for the primacy of … Read more