Ignatius of Antioch
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Writing about humility, Paul reaches for the highest thing he knows: Yahweh’s irrevocable oath from Isaiah 45 — “I am God, and there is no other” — and applies it directly to Jesus. Every knee. Every tongue. The divine name. This article examines what Paul is doing, answers three unitarian objections, and establishes from Scripture…
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✚ On the textual transmission, the modalist reading, and the man writing in chains — a Catholic response concerning the post-apostolic witness. Article II · The Greg Stafford Response Series Ignatius of Antioch wrote in chains, on a forced march from his city to the beasts of the Colosseum, choosing — under conditions of ultimate…
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A Catholic patristics response engaging modern subordinationist readings of St. Ignatius of Antioch — the archives passage of Philadelphians 8:2, the Word-from-silence of Magnesians 8:2, the reverence of the bishop, the modalism charge against Ephesians 3:2, and the question of apostolic continuity. Argued from cumulative force, with the strongest opposing readings acknowledged.
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Patristics · Catholic Apologetics Lord Jesus Christ Reigns · 5 May 2026 In Brief In a single short paragraph of his Letter to the Philadelphians, Ignatius of Antioch left a sentence that contemporary apologists have read as proof that the early Church abandoned Scripture for episcopal authority. Read with the Greek in view, and against…
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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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