Tag: Early Church

  • Oral Tradition, The Early Church, and Paul Pavao's Astonishment

    I had written (in this previous post): That’s rather the point about the early church fathers – they did not transmit an oral apostolic tradition to us, rather they were our predecessors in trying to search out the meaning of Scripture. Where they do a good job they are to be commended, and where they…

  • The Importance of Irenaeus

    An anonymous reader asked: Why are the witings of St. Irenaeus now so suddenly important[?] I thought that his relics were sacked by the Calvinists becaused he was alleged to be a heretic, ie., he is a proponent of Free Will and that his other writings do not support TULIP. The importance of Irenaeus is…