Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Isidore of Seville (d. 636) Affirming the Damnation of All Unbaptized Infants in his De Ecclesiasticis Officiis

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   (7) We believe that at the age of perfection baptism effects either the purgation of the original fault or the abolition of actual sin....

Isidore of Seville (d. 636) on Three Different Types of Baptism in his De Ecclesiasticis Officiis

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   There are three kinds of baptism: first, the baptism by which the stains of sin are washed away through the washing of regeneration. Se...

כֹּהֵן (kōhēn) and כֹּמֶר (kōmer) In the Lexham Theological Wordbook (2014)

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   כֹּהֵן ( kōhēn ). n. masc. priest. Someone who mediates between the divine and the human in or around a place of worship.   Altho...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Canon 102 of Trullo/Quinisext (A. D. 692) and All the Bishops Having the Ability to Bind and Loose

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Addressing all bishops, not the Bishop of Rome singularly, canon 102 of the Council of Trullo (AKA Quinisext), held A.D. 692, reads:   I...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Robert A. Sungenis on the Importance of the Patristics

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The following comes from Robert A. Sungenis, who has written a lot in favor of Catholic theology (e.g., Not By Bread Alone: The Biblical and...

"Elias" as a Forerunner and "Elias" in D&C 110 being John the Revelator in The Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times

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   In his position as patriarchal head of his own church, [Ross Wesley] LeBaron sees himself as preparing the way for the great man who wi...

Blake Ostler on 1 Clement Teaching Creatio Ex Materia, not Ex Nihilo

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   1 Clement. Clement, bishop of Rome, shared the same worldview as Philo of an eternal fabric or constitution of the world from which the...