Christian History Magazine—Issue 80: The First Bible Teachers
Overview
Unfortunately, some of the least-known figures of Christian history are the early church fathers (and mothers!). In this issue we meet such larger-than-life Bible teachers as Iranaeus, Origen, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory of Nyssa. Peering over their shoulders, we see the rich, quirky, inspiring ways they drew life from the Book that was the center of their lives.
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Top Highlights
“Irenaeus’s teaching of the right use of both the New Testament and the Old. Before Irenaeus, there was no New Testament. He is the first Christian writer to use, as Scripture, almost all the books that are in our New Testament today.” (source)
“The book is really expressing what it means for the Christian to love God with her whole heart and soul and mind and strength. The bride is the church or the soul of an individual ‘burning with heavenly love’ for the Word of God, symbolized by the bridegroom.” (source)
“First he outlines the faith handed down by the elders, who had known the apostles, epitomized in the three articles of the ‘canon of faith’—the one God and Father; the one Lord, the crucified and risen Jesus Christ; and the one Holy Spirit.” (source)
“Because of modern Christians’ reliance upon their eyes in reading, they often demonstrate an inability to hear the echoes and harmonies of Scripture and frequently doubt whether genuine allusions are present at all.” (source)
“The first is the collection of five books entitled The Refutation and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So-called” (source)
- Title: Christian History Magazine—Issue 80: The First Bible Teachers
- Author: Christian History Institute
- Series: Christian History Magazine
- Publisher: Christianity Today
- Print Publication Date: 2003
- Logos Release Date: 2009
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible; Church history › Early church; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:CH80
- Resource Type: Magazine
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T16:40:53Z
