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The early church fathers were great theologians--though they did not think of themselves as such. They were working pastors, involved in the daily life and leadership of their congregations. Yet they were wrestling with many of the great and formative questions of the Christian faith, such as the Trinity, the incarnation, the providence of God and the nature of the church. These beliefs were...

apostolic churches because there is no difference of doctrine. This is our guarantee of truth.26 What, then, is heresy? For Tertullian at least, heresy is teaching that can be identified by its diversity and contrariety. That is, as Tertullian puts it, “it originates neither from an apostle nor from an apostolic man; for the Apostles would not have diverged from one another in doctrine; no more would the apostolic man have put out teaching at variance with that of the Apostles.”27 Irenaeus, a gifted
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