Foster's Theological Reflections

Some of you might be interested in this piece by Dr. Loren Johns on the non-violent ethic and rhetoric of John's Apocalypse. http://www....

Church historian Gerald Bray writes: "In his counterblast to Praxeas, Tertullian came as near as he could to trinitarianism, without ab...

I am often amazed at the part that figurative language and metaphor played in the early church. For example, note how Melito of Sardis inter...

Greetings, I am posting the following in response to some information that has been posted on this blog regarding the pre-Nicenes and God...

There has been some discussion on another forum regarding Revelation 1:18. I now want to report what I have found pertaining to the translat...

In his book The Metaphor of God Incarnate (p. 69-71), John Hick quotes Frank Weston (1871-1924), a Trinitarian bishop who served in Africa. ...

See http://tertullian.org/articles/davies_tert_pliny.htm One quote from this link says: "The first of these 'errors' [in Tertul...

Hi all, I've often enjoyed reading Leonard Hodgson's Croall Lectures (1942-1943) which eventually became a book _The Doctrine of...

Dear Lady, You write: "Dear Prof. Foster, Which are the first episodes of prayers addressed to Christ?" In answering your question...

Greetings all! Someone has written to me as follows: "I reached the conviction Justyn [sic] believed in a anthropological concept const...

Taken from Peri Archon (De Principiis) I.2.8: 'But since He is called by the apostle not only the brightness of His glory, but also the ...

Greetings: "The word's [QANAH] lexical meaning, the semantic content it brings to context, is 'acquire,' no more than that....

"The truths that we confess concerning God fall under two modes. Some things true of God are beyond all the competence of human reason,...

The Problematic Nature of the Trinity Doctrine Trinitarians and non-trinitarians alike have noted the problematic nature of the Trinity d...

Greetings, "But when the Lord says that God is a Spirit, I think that Christ spoke thus of the Father, as wishing that something st...

Hello all, This is taken from Divine Institutes 1.5.1 (Numbering based on Anthony Bowen and Peter Garnsey's Translation): "the eff...

Dr. Orlov is pretty good about making some of his works available online: http://www.marquette.edu/maqom/metatronyhwh.html

"By means of proper names, especially by means of the name Jehovah, God made himself known unto Israel. Through the Mal'akh in whom...

I am going to be editing this post, but I wanted to go ahead and submit it to my blog. It has been my contention that without the doctrine o...

These remarks are taken from Cassiodorus' Latin translation of the Fragmenta from Clemens Alexandrinus. Cassiodorus lived in the sixth c...