Predestination is the Divine foreordaining or foreknowledge of all that will happen; with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of John ...
Examples of religious doctrines include:Christian Trinity and Virgin birthChristian Original Sin and its cure, the Redemption of Jesus ChristRoman Catholic theology (for example: Transubstantiation an ...
Theology translates into English from the Greek theologia (θεολογ?α) which derived from Τheos (Θε??), meaning "God," and -logia (-λογ?α), meaning "utterances, sayings, or oracles" (a ...
The Apostolic Fathers and the Apologists mostly dealt with topics other than original sin. The formalized doctrine of original sin was first developed in the 2nd-century by Irenaeus, the Bishop of Lyo ...
The underlying issue is: Do we have some control over our actions, and if so, what sort of control, what extent?On one hand, humans have a strong sense of freedom, which leads us to believe that we ha ...
Andrews Norton (December 31, 1786 – September 18, 1853) was an American preacher and theologian. Along with William Ellery Channing, he was the leader of mainstream Unitarianism of the early and midd ...
Servetus could have been born on 29 September 1511 in Villanueva de Sigena in Aragon, Spain, due to the fact that 29 September is Saint Michael's day according to the Catholic calendar of saints. Some ...
As a presbyter of the church at Rome under Pope Zephyrinus (199–217), Hippolytus was distinguished for his learning and eloquence. It was at this time that Origen of Alexandria, then a young man, hea ...
Justin Martyr was born at Flavia Neapolis (today Nablus) in Judaea into a pagan family, and defined himself as a Gentile. His grandfather, Bacchius, had a Greek name, while his father, Priscus, bore a ...
Felix, Bishop of Urgell, also known as Felix of Urzel (in Catalan: Fèlix d'Urgell, died in Lyon, 818) was a Christian bishop and theologian in the eighth century.Felix became Bishop at an unknown dat ...
There are five primary sources for the study of Ulfilas's life. Two are by Arian authors, three by Catholics.Arian sourcesLife of Ulphilas in the Letter of AuxentiusRemaining fragments of Historia Ecc ...
Eunomius (Ε?ν?μιο?) (died c.393), one of the leaders of the extreme or "anomoean" Arians, who are sometimes accordingly called Eunomians, was born at Dacora in Cappadocia early in the 4th cent ...
Asterius the Sophist (?στ?ριο?; died c. 341) was an Arian Christian theologian from Cappadocia. Few of his writings have been recovered in their entirety (latest edition by Markus Vinzent). He ...
Distantly related to the imperial family of Constantine, he owed his progression from a less significant Levantine bishopric to the most important episcopal see to his influence at court, and the grea ...
Little is known about the life of Eusebius. His successor at the see of Caesarea, Acacius, wrote a Life of Eusebius, a work that has since been lost. Eusebius' own surviving works probably only repres ...
