Quotes from the lesson: Lactantius (d. 325 AD): “Religion consists in divine things, and there is nothing divine except in heavenly things; it follows that images are without religion, because…
Challenges that medieval preachers faced The rise of allegorical interpretation of Scripture Examples of Medieval preaching: Bernard of Clairvaux
What was the difference between medieval worship in Eastern and Western churches? We notice the departure from the simplicity of early church worship. Hymnody in the Medieval Church
Early Church Fathers did not hold to the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation. Instead, they saw the Lord's Supper as signifying and sealing the benefits of Christ, but denied that…
Around the time that Christianity becomes the state religion in the Roman Empire, we begin to see unhealthy innovations developing in the "middle-aged" church. These included a deeply elaborate series…
What is the earliest evidence outside of the New Testament for what worship in the early church was really like? What would it have looked like to attend early worship…