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A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs: A Reference Guide to More than 700 Topics Discussed by the Early Church Fathers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Interest in the ways of the early church has never been more intense. What did early Christians believe about the divinity of Christ? What were the beliefs of those who sat at the feet of Jesus’ disciples? Now, for the first time, a unique dictionary has been developed to allow easy access to the ancient material and furnish ready answers to these questions and others like them. David W. Bercot...

Moffatt left the term logos untranslated because in Greek that term means far more than simply “word.” Its range of meaning could include “reason,” “rational principle,” and even “mind.” Early Christians use the term logos extensively when speaking about the Son of God. When John refers to the Son as being the Logos of God, the early Christians understood him to mean that the Son is the eternal Rational Principle of the Father, the Father’s Counselor before all ages.6
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