Thursday, April 28, 2022

Eucharistic Theology the Demonstrations of Aphrahat (Aphraates)

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12:6-7   6. Our Saviour ate the Passover sacrifice with his disciples during the night watch of the fourteenth. He offered to his disci...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

David F. Wright on the Westminster Confession of Faith and Baptismal Regeneration

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David F. Wright was Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Reformed Christianity at the University of Edinburgh at the time of his death in 20...

David F. Wright on Colossians 2 as a Reference to Water Baptism and it being the means of appropriating the atonement of Christ

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    There remains Colossians 2.11-12, which starts with a spiritualizing of circumcision as a way of describing the Christian experience o...

David F. Wright on Polycarp's "eighty-six years I have served [Christ]" and the Question of Infant Baptism

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While a proponent of infant baptism, David F. Wright, commenting on the appeal to Polycarp's "eighty-six years I have served [Chris...

"One Baptism for the Remission of Sins" in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed being Interpreted by Early Christians as Teaching Baptismal Regeneration

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    ‘One baptism for the remissions of sins ’—and there again the specification of the purpose of baptism is important—declares that the w...

David F. Wright on Origen's Theology of Personal Pre-existence Informing His Understanding of the nature of "Original Sin"

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    In three passages from the later Caesarean period of his life ( Homilies on Luke 14 [on Luke 2.22]; Homilies on Leviticus 8.3; Comment...

David F. Wright on the Magisterial Reformers and their Followers Appealing to "Tradition" to Support Infant Baptism

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    Tradition and Scripture   There may be significance in the Reformers’ reading of Origen, Augustine and other Fathers as demonstrat...