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The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creeds and Councils of the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

This text explores the notion that every social order rests on a creed—a concept of life and law—and represents a religion in action. The basic faith of a society means growth in terms of that faith. Rushdoony argues that because of its indifference to its creedal basis in biblical Christianity, Western civilization is today facing death in its struggle with humanism. Just as when a foundation is...

The answer of Nestorius to the final summons of the Council was to shut the door in the face of the visiting bishops and then to preach even more bluntly his particular doctrines. Theodotus, Bishop of Ancyra, said that Nestorius declared, “that we must not assert nourishing by milk in regard to God, nor the birth out of a virgin. And so he often said here that we must not say that God is two months old or three months old.”16 For Nestorius, it was an impossibility for the passive “unmoved Mover”
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