Tag Archives: Arianism

free choice: and there was one not three?

Goethe was enchanted by Gottfried Arnold’s “The Impartial History of the Church and the Heretics,” writing, ” that every man in the end came to have his own religion, and now it seemed to me the most natural thing in … Continue reading

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heresies: bonfires of the inanities

For in fact, when we look closely at the loose collection of historical heresies, there has been a continuity, though blurred, and hidden under a multiplicity of names, that has been fairly enduring over the centuries… For in fact, when … Continue reading

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WHO SPIKED THE PUNCH

When discussing the fall of Rome, there is a desire to latch onto the shortest, the most accessible, and the most direct and dramatic answer to the question lurking in many minds: mind: what does it actually mean for a … Continue reading

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