David W T Brattston: 7 books
Papal Supremacy
Quotations and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Under what authority does the Pope reign over the Roman Catholic Church? What are the ecclesiastical and theological underpinnings of the papacy? How did early Christians view the authority of the Roman bishop?
Dr. Brattston answers these questions by examining Biblical and early Christian...
by David W. T. Brattston
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
What are we to make of the Biblical book of Hebrews 6:4-6 and 10:26-27? They teach that "it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world...
Traditional Christian Ethics
Volume Three: Affirmative or Positive Commandments L-Z
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional Christian Ethics features two exhaustive alphabetical lists of affirmative commandments and prohibitions from the earliest Christian ethics, as found in writers before the mass apostasy of 249-251 AD. The affirmatives, or positives, list consists of what Christians are/were commanded or...
Traditional Christian Ethics
Volume Two: Affirmative or Positive Commandments
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
WHAT CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO DO
ConfidenceClement of AlexandriaStromata4.8 ConfidenceHebrews10.35 Confidence before GodOrigenDe Principiis3.1.21 Confidence: boldness in confidenceOrigenCommentary on Ephesians3.12 Confidence: exorcise confidentlyTwo Letters to Virgins(pseudo-Clement)1.12 Confidence,...
Sabbath and Sunday among the Earliest Christians, Second Edition
When Was the Day of Public Worship?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
According to Christian sources from before the middle of the third century AD, the ancient evidence is unanimous that, although there were a few slight differences as to how weekends should be observed, one thing is certain and was uncontroversial: the main day of the week for early Christians to...
Traditional Christian Ethics
Volume One an Introduction and Indexes
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Volume One of Traditional Christian Ethics describes the terminology, discusses popular approaches to ethical decision-making today, illustrates that the earliest Christians conducted themselves in accordance with a large number of specific moral rules, states the method of this set of books for reconstructing...
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Vol. Four: the Negative Commandments – Prohibitions
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
What Not to Do Abominable embraces1 Clement28.1 AbortionAthenagorasPresbeia35 AbortionBarnabas19.5 AbortionDidache2.2 AbortionDoctrina2.2 AbortionHippolytusPhilosophumena9.7 AbortionLetter to Diognetus5.6 AbortionMinucius FelixOctavius30 AbortionRevelation of Peter26 AbortionSibylline Oracles2.281f...