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Christian History Magazine—Issue 51: Heresy in the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

“There was a time when the Son was not,” sang Arius, a 4th century Libyan bishop and poster child of early church heresy. Debates covered a wide range of issues, from wealth to wild charismaticism to non-Trinitarianism, but none was more central to preserving the Christian faith than the personhood of Jesus Christ. Discussions of his divinity and humanity were the perpetual theological argument...

Jesus is fully human and fully divine, having two natures in one person—“without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.” Key text: Phil. 2:5–11: “Christ Jesus … being in very nature God, [was] made in human likeness … and become obedient to death.… Every tongue [should] confess Jesus Christ is Lord.”