Church Fathers
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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…
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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…
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The claim that the Synoptic Gospels present a theologically shallow Jesus — a prophet, a moral teacher, an exalted but merely human Messiah — is one of the most persistent errors in the history of biblical interpretation. This article dismantles that claim text by text, from the Virgin Birth to the Great Commission, showing that…
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![Filioque: The Catholic Doctrine of the Holy Spirit’s Procession — Biblical, Patristic, and Conciliar | [LordJesusChristReigns.blog]](https://lordjesuschristreigns.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image-8-1108x720.jpg)
Two Greek words the Latin Bible collapsed into one generated eight centuries of controversy. This article untangles it completely: the biblical case from Galatians 4:6, John 15:26, and Romans 8:9; Augustine’s principaliter and communiter; Maximus the Confessor’s defense of Rome; the Councils of Toledo, Lyons, and Florence; and the landmark 1995 Pontifical Council clarification showing…
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![Theotokos: The Catholic Doctrine of the Mother of God — Biblical, Patristic, and Magisterial | [LordJesusChristReigns.blog]](https://lordjesuschristreigns.blog/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/image-4-1108x720.jpg)
Theotokos — God-bearer — is not a Marian superlative. It is a Christological entailment. This article traces the title from its biblical spine in Galatians 4:4 and Luke 1, through the Ark of the Covenant typology, Irenaeus’s New Eve theology, and the drama of Ephesus (AD 431), to Lumen Gentium’s definitive treatment. Every source verified.…
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