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Introducing Major Theologians: From the Apostolic Fathers to the Twentieth Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is ‘newer’ really ‘better’? We often assume so, but if we do treat the past as inferior, we will ignore the legacy of history, and thus will find ourselves stranded on the tiny desert island of our own moment in time. In particular, this applies to Christian theology, which should be thought, and lived, corporately by the church down through the ages. The remedy to ‘chronological snobbery’ is,...

Thus the content of the apostolic proclamation in Acts was new to Jewish audiences in one respect only: that the same Word that the patriarchs had known had now come in the flesh. For nothing else [but baptism] was wanting to him who had been already instructed by the prophets: he was not ignorant of God the Father, nor of the rules as to the [proper] manner of life, but was merely ignorant of the advent of the Son of God.29 It was a powerful affirmation against Marcion that the Old Testament is
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