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Ulfila: The Trinity, the One True Church, and Appeals to Scripture and Tradition
In a previous post (link) we mentioned that we would be discussing Ulfila’s trinitarian errors. What did Ulfila believe? In “The Goths of the Fourth Century,” pp. 128-29, authors Heather et al. explain: Ulfila’s theology shares with Arius its emphatic differentiation between the three Persons of the Trinity. Auxentius further reports his hostility to both…
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Waltz, Nicaea and Shea
David Waltz (no great fan of mine, if memory serves correctly) has nevertheless provided a helpful two-part post in response to my rebuttal to Shea’s post on Nicaea. Mr. Waltz has, I suspect, read more about the Nicene and early post-Nicene period than most people ever will. So, I appreciate that he took the time…
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Nicaea Was Local Council, Arianism Not Settled Controversy, Implies Shea
I admit that I’ve never had a high view of Mark Shea’s scholarship, yet a mixture of surprise and amusement washed over me as I took in Shea’s breathtakingly ignorant response to a reader’s question regarding Augustine and Sola Scriptura. A reader had pointed out to Shea that Augustine, in responding to the Arian heretic…