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Category: Historical Theology / Church History

“Sheer Peacefulness”: Reflections on the Revival of 2023 from a Historical Perspective

God is doing a mighty work right before our eyes! The revival currently taking place at Asbury University, Lee University, and other places throughout the

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February 28, 2023 No Comments

Confronting Eurocentrism in Christian Historiography

In his letter to the church at Corinth, Paul used the analogy of the human body to describe the interdependence of the church of Jesus

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February 22, 2023 No Comments

Creation, Culture, and a Missional Approach to Church History

The term “church history” immediately conjures up a collage of images: Gothic script and stone cathedrals; flowing vestments, gleaming chalices, bones, and books. The thing

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December 14, 2022 No Comments

Building a Theological Library: Historical Theology

St. Vladimir’s Popular Patristics Series Building a historical theology library must begin with primary sources. I know that many of you are looking to this

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November 23, 2022 No Comments

The United in United Methodist

It may come as a surprise to the uninitiated in United Methodist history that the word United was not originally, formally associated with “the people

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October 17, 2022 No Comments

The Making of Biblical Womanhood

“You want me to finish this book,” I said to my husband. It was early in March 2020—just one month before my manuscript deadline and

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October 12, 2022 No Comments

Divine Call and the Historic Struggle over Women’s Roles

In a previous Catalyst blog entitled “The Biblical Basis for the Ordination of Women in the Wesleyan Tradition,” I described various patterns of women’s leadership

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October 18, 2021 No Comments

A History of Spiritual Angst

I just finished teaching a week-long intensive church history survey, and I was struck once again by a pattern I’ve noticed among theologians. The pattern

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February 3, 2020 No Comments

Reading the Scriptures with the Reformers: Romans 1-8

Have you ever studied a Robert Silvers photograph? When Silvers was a student at the MIT Media Lab in the 1990s, he invented an art

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October 16, 2019 No Comments

Church History Matters

As a new school year begins and I look at my students, most in my classes for some liberal arts requirement, I find myself making

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September 23, 2019 No Comments
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