A careful patristic reading of Deuteronomy 28:66 and Jeremiah 11:19 as foreshadowings of the cross and the Bread of Life, with verbatim citations from six early Church Fathers and honest engagement with Jewish counter-readings.
A Catholic and Eastern Orthodox response to Jimmy Akin's Divine Council reading of Genesis 1:26 — from Dei Verbum, the Fathers, the Talmud, and the Targums.
On August 13 every year, the Latin Church commemorates two men together: Pope Saint Pontian and the Roman presbyter Saint Hippolytus, who had opposed three successive popes for eighteen years before reconciling in the Sardinian mines. This article traces, from the earliest Roman chronicles to the current Annuario Pontificio and Martyrologium Romanum, the canonical judgment the Church has preserved across seventeen centuries: that Hippolytus was the first antipope, a theologian of the first rank, a reconciled martyr, and a saint — but never the Bishop of Rome.
The number 318 appears once in the Bible — in the count of Abraham's trained servants in Genesis 14:14. Written in Greek as Tau-Iota-Eta, it encodes the Cross of Christ and the Name of Jesus. And it was present at the Council of Nicaea. A patristic investigation with all primary sources verified.
The claim that the Synoptic Gospels present a theologically simple Jesus — a great teacher, an exalted prophet, an agent of God rather than God himself — is one of the most persistent errors in biblical interpretation. This article dismantles it text by text, argument by argument, across Psalm 110, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and two thousand years of unbroken patristic testimony. The centerpiece is the argument that has never been successfully answered: in Matthew 5, Jesus places his own personal legislative word over against the Lex talionis — the foundational principle of all Mosaic criminal justice — from his own first-person authority. Deuteronomy 18:20 leaves exactly two categories of person who would do that. A false prophet condemned to death. Or the Lawgiver himself. There is no third category.
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