fides quaerens intellectum
Sep 28 2009
Thanks to Fr. Stephen for this tip, which has helped to provide fodder for a few other posts this week. Blame him if you don’t like them.
Nathan Busenitz has posted on the growing trend among some in the Emergent Church to ‘get back to the roots of Christianity.’ I have to wonder if they would feel the same way if they read either Justin or Pliny the Younger’s account of the early Christian worship service:
Dec 16 2008
Most of this information, is widely known and perhaps widely disputed as well. It can be found in Robert E. Van Voorst’s book Jesus Outside the New Testament. This is in response to a discussion that is ongoing here because of this post. I decided to post instead of comment. As you can see, it is just too much to put into a comment. I believe that any discussion that has been maintained at the level which ours has is beneficial, if no one else, to me. There is enough here to dismiss the idea, I believe, that Christianity is a religion based on a myth or cultic character from 1st century Palestine. In the days that predated the mass media and communication, to see a movement powerful enough to be expelled from Rome in 49, having started only 16 years earlier, has to be contributed to something more than a myth or misunderstanding of ‘good teacher’. The Christian religion spread from Palestine to Rome in 16 short years and was large enough to be considered of refutation and mockery.
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