Category Archives: Ignatius

Jesus the Literate, Slavery, Had Adam and Eve Done It Right

Posted on December 15, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

1. M. Bar-Ilan, “Writing in Ancient Israel. Part Two: Scribes and Books in the Late Second Commonwealth and Rabbinic Period,” Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, ed. Martin Jan Mulder … Continue reading →

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Martyrs Atoning for the Church?

Posted on December 4, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

Source: Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1910) 83. “Origen went so far as to ascribe to the sufferings of the martyrs an atoning value for others, an efficacy like … Continue reading →

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A Christian Studying Judaism

Posted on December 3, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

Source: Philip Schaff, History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1910) 39. “The Talmud is the slow growth of several centuries. It is a chaos of Jewish learning, wisdom, and folly, a continent … Continue reading →

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Glorifying Death?

Posted on December 1, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

Source: John Sellars, Stoicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) 145-146. “What [Nicolas Malabranche (1638-1715)] found most objectionable in Seneca’s Stoicism was the arrogance of the claim that it is possible to be happy in this life. For Malabranche the … Continue reading →

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An Open CGI

Posted on November 26, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

I’m home in Indiana right now, and one of my traditions when I’m here is to peruse old issues of the Journal. The Journal is a newspaper that has articles by various people in the Armstrongite movement, though I believe … Continue reading →

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Temporal Referents: A Decent Sabbatarian Argument

Posted on August 13, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

Today, I want to wrestle with a Sabbatarian, pro-holy day argument that is somewhat hard to gainsay. Even though I’ve been arguing against Sabbatarianism for the past couple of days, I acknowledge that it can make decent arguments every now … Continue reading →

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