100 key documents in Christian history

I stumbled across this website, and thought it worth "keeping" so I post the link here for future access:

https://scrollpublishing.com/100-key-documents-in-christian-history/

The key documents cover early Christianity; the church-state union and the age of councils; medieval Christianity; the reformation era; Christianity of the 1600's; Christianity of the 1700's; Christianity of the 1800's; and Christianity of the 1900's to present.

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Precis of: The Presence of the Future, by George Eldon Ladd

In 1964, when this book was published as Jesus and the Kingdom , George Eldon Ladd said, “There is a growing consensus in New Testament scholarship that the Kingdom of God is in some sense both present and future.” [1] THE PRESENCE OF THE FUTURE The Eschatology of Biblical Realism If the Kingdom of God is defined as an eschatological redemption realm of the age to come, and we know that Jesus proclaimed that this new age was imminent, then we have insuperable difficulties. Alternatively, if the Kingdom of God is defined as an experience in the human heart, then all that Jesus said about it as being imminent etc can be sloughed off as notions that he shared with Jews, which have nothing to do with his message. But, If, however, the Kingdom is the reign of God, not merely in the human heart but dynamically active in the person of Jesus and in human history, then it becomes possible to understand how the Kingdom of God can be present and futu...

What the early church believed about SALVATION

The following is a precis of David Bercot’s book, WHAT THE EARLY CHURCH BELIEVED ABOUT SALVATION WHY SHOULD WE CARE WHAT THE EARLY CHRISTIANS BELIEVED? We pay attention to what the early church believed because it can impact our eternity. [1] By early church, is meant, pre-Nicaea. The early Christian era ended at the Council of Nicaea because after that, church and state merged. The church moved from a focus on lifestyle to a focus on theology as “theologians and church councils begin creating new defined doctrines that all Christians had to subscribe to or face state persecution.” [2] The point is that we would like to hear what people believed who received the truth firsthand from the disciples of the apostles in the first hundred years after the last apostle died. [3] WE ARE SAVED BY FAITH ALONE – RIGHT? Most people have gr...

What the Early Christians Believed About Eternal Security (Precis of Bercot's book)

This is a precis of David Bercot's book: WHAT THE EARLY CHRISTIANS BELIEVED ABOUT ETERNAL SECURITY DOES THE BIBLE MEAN WHAT IT SAYS Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof. (Matt 13:31-32 KJV) The obvious interpretation is that the kingdom of God will eventually fill the whole earth, but it will start small. As a Jehovah’s Witness back in the 1970’s Bercot was taught that this passage meant “that the counterfeit kingdom of God (all the churches) would grow and fill the earth. Further, it said that the birds of the air which nest in the mustard tree represent the demons.” [1] Yet the passage does not speak of a counterfeit kingdom. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying,...

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