Tag Archives: Tertullian

How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: A Drive-by Book Review

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Darrell Pursiful

Thomas Oden’s How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind is obviously born of deep passion to recover the roots of early African Christianity and especially to encourage African scholars and theologians themselves to dig deeper into the literary sources and make … Continue reading →

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The Earliest Liturgy: Developments

Posted on March 22, 2008 by Darrell Pursiful

Patterns of Christian Meals In my previous post, I only discussed Christian meals that have an explicit Eucharistic element. Other sources are ambiguous, and scholars have debated for some time whether certain texts (e.g., the Didache) are describing the Eucharist … Continue reading →

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Happy Are the People Who Know the Festal Shout

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

This story from the Chicago Sun-Times mentions “Nigerian warrior cries” as part of the procession of an Anglican church to its new worship space after formalizing‚ quite peaceably, the article suggests‚ a split with the Episcopal Church in the USA … Continue reading →

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What Were Baptists Thinking?

Posted on September 13, 2007 by Darrell Pursiful

Having laid out something of the biblical exegesis that informs the traditional understanding of baptism among Baptists, I’d like to distill a couple of important values this groundwork implies. In other words, what did Baptists think they were doing by … Continue reading →

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The Wealth of Egypt

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Darrell Pursiful

From Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses: The loftier meaning [of the Israelite's plundering the wealth of Egypt] is therefore more fitting than the obvious one. It commands those participating through virtue in the free life also to equip themselves … Continue reading →

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