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>>20423542
> The Crusades only happened because Christianity was rebranded as a warrior religion to appeal to Germanic pagans. There’s an entire book called the Germanisation of Christianity. During these periods the masses were not able to read the Bible and just listened to the authority of the church

You would be surprised at how much it was quite the opposite of what happened

> Ulfilas translated "all the books of Scripture with the exception of the Books of Kings, which he omitted because they are a mere narrative of military exploits, and the Gothic tribes were especially fond of war, and were in more need of restraints to check their military passions than of spurs to urge them on to deeds of war.”

authors you hate? Moment you decided you didn’t like them.

Cormac McCarthy
While I was reading the road I had to look up what a catamite was and it disgusted me so much I stopped reading halfway through the book and looked up the synopsis on Wikipedia and decided I didn’t like him anymore.

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Ulfilas edition

>>18194068
Yes, the operations/essence distinction can be comparable to the 'formal distinctions' made by Scotus for instance. To learn more I'd suggest you read:

>Palamas Among the Scholastics - Kappes, Goff, Giltner
>The Ground of Union: Deification in Aquinas and Palamas - Williams
>Neo-Palamism, Divinizing Grace, and the Breach between East and West - Finch

>>17603615
>Have you looked into his work on the reliability of the NT?
I've watched some of his lectures on this, but I have not read his academic books on this (as opposed to the ones he writes for the general public). Other than that I've read some of his blog, which is quite interesting but not enough for me to read it regularly. I prefer Edgar Foster's blog, he will regularly post content relating to the Greek which is my area of interest.
>Also can you recommend books on the formation of the canon/corruption of the texts.
If you want to learn about the formation of canon, and some questions Christians must deal with and ponder on today, then Metzger's book on the canon (the one at the bottom of my stack) is an valuable resource. As well as Gallagher and Meades' The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity. The appendix of this work also contains information regarding the non-canonical works that were still used widely in the early Church, information such as which church fathers accepted it, etc. As for the "corruption," I think thats a loaded term, since there wasn't any organized corruption of scripture which anyone who is familiar with the various manuscripts will know (read through the variants that Metzger discusses in his textual commentary, you would be hard pressed to find any strictly theologically motivated variants). The best defense of the traditional canon and against the myths about textual criticism would be Pickering's The Identity of the New Testament
>I have found this to be the area that non-Christians attack the most.
Yes, mainly Muslim apologists on speakers corner take great liberty with these things. It's annoying as they often make many mistakes, or just repeat the words of scholars who are not Christian (something they would never allow a non-Muslim to do for their scripture / traditions).

>>17592228
To say two things are one "εν" doesn't mean they're numerically identical, even Calvin and James White recognize that verse is not a statement of numeric identity (otherwise he could have used the word εις, said they were "one ousia," or something similar) but a statement of unity in purpose - in that they share the same will or plan due to Christ being obedient to the Father in all things. See Jn 17:22 ("that they may be one, even as we are one") and 1 Cor 3:8 ("Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one"). The preposition εν is used idiosyncratically in the NT and LXX due to the influence of Semitic idiom, so Jesus isn't saying they're literally spatially inside one another or something. For instance see Mt 17:12, Jn 3:21, 11:10, 14:30, Rom 16:6, 1 Cor 7:39, 14:11, 15:18, 2 Cor 2:12, 13:4, Gal 1:16, 1:24, 3:14, Eph 6:21.

>>17446316
Christianity spread the fastest in Greece. And it was Greeks like Ulfilas. who converted many German pagans like the Goths. Greece had already become more sympathetic to monotheism way before Christianity had spread.

Anyone got any good books on the migration period? I am specifically interested in the Germanic tribes and their kingdoms.