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Classical Christian Doctrine: Introducing the Essentials of the Ancient Faith is unavailable, but you can change that!

This clear and concise text helps readers grasp the basic doctrines of the Christian faith from the earliest days of Christianity. Ronald Heine, an internationally known expert on early Christian theology, developed this book after many years of teaching Christian doctrine. Heine primarily uses the classical Christian doctrines of the Nicene Creed to guide students into the essentials of the...

‘was in the form of God’ came in order … to take ‘the form of a slave.’ ”11 The preexistence of the Son in all eternity with God the Father was basic to Origen’s understanding of Jesus Christ. The Logos theologians had also stressed the eternal existence of the Logos with God. Origen clearly stood in their tradition, but he also differed from them, as the preceding discussions should make apparent. He has two major critiques of the Logos theology as it had been expressed by his predecessors. First,
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