The Nicene Creed
History The Nicene Creed is the most famous and influential creed in the history of the church, as it was the product of a theological controversy concerning the deity of […]
B.B. Warfield Says Jesus Has Emotions Too
In his article “The Emotional Life of Our Lord,” B.B. Warfield begins: “It belongs to the truth of our Lord’s humanity, that he was subject to all sinless human emotions.” It […]
I Set Myself on Fire
When God opens someone’s heart to the truth of the gospel and restores their hope, that life is never the same. John Wesley (1703–1791), the great eighteenth-century Anglican clergyman and […]
The Apostles’ Creed
The Oldest Creed The Apostles’ Creed is the oldest and most popular creed of the church, and has greatly influenced the other creeds and confessions written throughout church history. The […]
Nestorius: Know the Heretics
John Calvin said in his Institutes of the Christian Religion that Nestorius “devised a double Christ!” The early church taught that Jesus Christ was one person with two natures: a divine […]
Gnostics: Know the Heretics
Gnosticism is not a specific heretical movement in church history, but rather a broad umbrella term categorizing a loose collection of false beliefs. Questions concerning the origins of Gnosticism are […]
Mani: Know the Heretics
A self-appointed “helper of Jesus” Manichaeism is based on the teachings of Mani (216–c.277), who founded a Gnostic-like, highly dualistic religion. He rejected all of the Old Testament and much […]
Docetism: Know the Heretics
Docetism was a heresy about Jesus that gained in popularity in the third century among those committed to Greek philosophy. Docetism is a term for a set of beliefs that […]
Awesome Women of the Reformation
All too often, the textbooks focus solely on the men of the Reformation—Luther, Calvin, Cranmer, and others—and fail to take notice of the faithful women who served among, beside, and […]
Photinus: Know the Heretics
Questioning the Trinity After the Council of Nicaea in 325, the orthodox understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity as three persons sharing one divine essence was not universally agreed […]