Here is St. Augustine, reflecting on the uniqueness of the Word made flesh in his book, Confessions VII.9: So you made use of a man, one who was bloated with the most outrageous pride, to procure me some of the books of the Platonists, translated from the Greek into Latin. In them I read – not, …
The Trinity: historical background
One of the biggest problems within contemporary North American Christianity is theological amnesia. Many churchgoers have no idea that our faith is situated within "a great cloud of witnesses" (Hebrews 12:1) spanning from the time of Christ up to our present day. As a remedy to that, more than ten years ago I pulled together a …
The Church in Algeria
In the past few years, I have been particularly interested in what is happening in the church in North Africa. There are a variety of reasons for my interest, but I'll offer two of them here: 1) North Africa was one of the most vibrant centers of Christianity in the first 500 years after Christ, …
Matthew Erickson 