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Category Archives: Early Church
Anderson-3 periods
In The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel, Paul N. Anderson says there were three periods during which the Gospel of John developed within a specific community: The Palestinian Period-30 to 70 CE The First Asia Minor Period–The Johannine Community-70-85 CE … Continue reading
Anderson-dialectical thinking
I am reading Paul N. Anderson’s The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel. The fourth gospel has been the center of controversy about the nature of God, Christ and the Trinity. Church history has seen several clashes about this. These stem … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, Early Church
Tagged antichrist, dialectical thinking, Paul N. Anderson, the gospel of John, the Holy Spirit, Trinity
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The Didache-my off-the-wall idea
Today I have something to follow up on my discussion of Aaron Milavec and the Didache. It concerns the Lord’s Prayer. Milavec did not think the Lord’s Prayer meant Jesus’ prayer. He thought it meant the prayer that came from … Continue reading
Posted in Early Church, historical Jesus
Tagged Aaron Milavec, Alan Garrow, Ebionites, John the Baptist, Mandaeans, The Lord's Prayer
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Milavec-appreciation and questions
Aaron Milavec, in his The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary, has given his view of the Didache as a template to be memorized and improvised upon by spiritual fathers and mothers to train their spiritual children (novices in the community). … Continue reading
Milavec–the burning process
The last chapter of the Didache is an end-times discourse. Some believe this is not really an originial part of it. But Aaron Milavec argues for the unity of the Didache. There does seem to be a connection between the … Continue reading
Milavec-charismatics
There is a theory about early Christianity that comes from Gerd Theissen and gets modified by John Dominic Crossan. It is that Jesus founded a movement of wandering charismatics. This partly comes from Theissen’s sociological model (his book was The Sociology … Continue reading
Posted in Early Church
Tagged Aaron Milavec, charismatics, Gerd Theissen, John Dominic Crossan, The Didache
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Milavec-first communion
I have to go back to the discussion of baptism in the Didache community that I covered in my last post about Aaron Milavec’s The Didache: Text, Translation, Analysis, and Commentary. He gives us a scenario where the community meets … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Early Church
Tagged Aaron Milavec, first communion, The Didache, the Eucharist
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