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Issue 51 : Heresy in the Early Church

Originally published in 1996

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Heresy in the Early Church: Did You Know?

Remarkable or little-known facts about heresy in the early church

Tony Lane
Heresy in the Early Church: From the Editor - How to Read This Issue

Mark Galli
A Hammer Struck at Heresy

What exactly happened at the famous Council of Nicea, when the Roman emperor convened some 250 quarreling Christian bishops?

Robert Payne
The King Visits Earth

The champion of orthodoxy on why the Word became flesh.
Heresy in the Early Church: Christian History Infographic - Sifting Through the Christ Controversies

A quick summary of the competing schools of thought.

The Editors
Fine-Tuning the Incarnation

A lot of mistakes were made before the church figured out how best to describe Jesus Christ.

Bruce L. Shelley
The Defining Moment

Key portions of the church's most important theological statement
Finding the Truth

How the earliest church decided Marcion and the Gnostics, among others, were wrong.

Gusto Gonzlez, Jr.
Why Bishops Should Be Trusted

When some early Christians said they had secret apostolic teaching, one church father said, "Not likely."
Heresy in the Early Church: A Gallery of Malcontents for Christ

The mixed motives and odd teachings of four notorious heretics

Stephen Miller
Origen: Model or Heretic?

He created controversy when he tried to explain the gospel in terms his culture could grasp.

Kenneth R. Calvert
Heresy in the Early Church: Christian History Timeline

Bradley Nassif
Testing the Prophets

In the Montanist controversy, did the church reject heresy or the Holy Spirit?

Jim Smith
Risky Lifestyles

It wasn't just what Christians believed but also how they lived that concerned early church teachers.

Robert Krupp
Heresy in the Early Church: Christian History Interview - The Search for the Biblical Jesus

The hard, technical, theological work on Christ was essentially a 400-year Bible study.

Thomas Oden
Heresy in the Early Church: Recommended Resources

David Wright

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