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Roman Christian theologian and writer (c. 155 – c. 220)
The Catholic Church teaches that the Sacrament of Penance (confession or reconciliation) was instituted by Jesus Christ and has been practiced in some form since the apostolic era; Trent and modern Ca...
Early Christian writings generally present in the sources examined, with foundational texts like the Didache and authors such as Tertullian, Athenagoras, and Clement of Alexandria framing abortion as ...
Early Christian interpreters began treating Isaiah 14:12's Hebrew phrase Helel ben Shachar ("shining one, son of the morning") as a portrait of a fallen angel chiefly because Greek and Latin translati...
Early church engagement with was uneven: several second‑ and third‑century Fathers treated its and visions of judgment as authoritative evidence shaping Christian thought, while later Latin theologian...
Historians treat Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as ancient, theologically driven biographies whose value for reconstructing the historical Jesus depends on methodical parsing of authorship, date, sourc...
Early Christian writers began to link the Isaiah passage about the “morning star” (Hebrew helel, Latin lucifer) with the devil already in late antiquity: church fathers such as Origen, Tertullian and ...
The — the false accusation that Jews murder non‑Jews to use their blood in religious rites — has roots in ancient slanders but crystallized as a medieval an anti‑Jewish trope in the 12th century and h...
The claim that “ is the katechon” is an interpretive argument advanced by some conservative writers who cast Trump as a restraining force against perceived cultural and political decline, while many t...
The biblical basis for Christian opposition to abortion rests on a combination of explicit legal texts, theological claims about divine creation and personhood, and consistent early Christian teaching...