Justin Martyr explained the distinction and the sameness of the Father and the Son with the analogy of a candle. The flame can pass from one candle to another without changing in quality or diminishing...

Augustine recast how people should view history, that history was not the story of the rise and fall of empires because those are human things. Those are the city of man. Rather, true history should...

Prominent Christians in Constantine’s time waited to be baptized until their deathbeds lest they commit a “major”sin that couldn’t be forgiven of those already baptized. Others felt anyone who did anything to avoid martyrdom were...