Just south of Palestine, and half way across the world from our American Christianity lived a you... more Just south of Palestine, and half way across the world from our American Christianity lived a young man in third century Egypt – and while many of us may not know his name he is attributed to being the “father of monks”, an unwitting “example, oracle, healer, a guide”, a man who patterned the “discipline of monks”, “God’s gentleman” and man whom would bring joy to Athanasius. Accolades aside the story of Saint Antony the Great or Saint Antony of Egypt has greatly formed various parts of Christianity – monasticism, the Coptic Church, Athanasius (whose conviction against Arianism helped bring about the Nicean Creed) are just a few of such influences. While he has had such an impact there has been little taught of him to the Western Protestant Church – which has caused an ignorance in our understanding of church development. In this paper I hope to bring to light brief understanding of who Saint Antony was.
I will attempt to weave various voices in an attempt to offer a cohesive paper that will first look at a brief history of Antony, then key issues with the sources about him, the mythos surrounding Antony, his effect of asceticism and lastly discuss the necessity knowing of Saint Antony.
This paper will attempt to explore the place of doubt in testimony. Or put another way, how can w... more This paper will attempt to explore the place of doubt in testimony. Or put another way, how can we faithfully express seasons of doubt, areas of darkness and unresolved “issues” in the Pentecostal practice of testimony. For whether it is finished work, or Christian perfection - the space for unresolved portions of testimony are often not given.This paper hopes to offer another perspective out of history rather than Scriptural basis, as we will look at John Wesley’s own writings of his journey of doubt, assurance and testimony.
This paper attempts to explore the keys parts of the Hussite Reformation and to look at how Jan H... more This paper attempts to explore the keys parts of the Hussite Reformation and to look at how Jan Hus’ De Ecclesia laid out some significant ecclesiological critiques of the church of his day. We will then jump a century ahead as we look to Count Nicholas Zinzendorf and the Moravian movement’s lived out ecclesiology. Lastly, I will bring this two into dialogue with Pentecostal ecclesiology and how Hus speaks to us whether explicitly or implicitly.
Just south of Palestine, and half way across the world from our American Christianity lived a you... more Just south of Palestine, and half way across the world from our American Christianity lived a young man in third century Egypt – and while many of us may not know his name he is attributed to being the “father of monks”, an unwitting “example, oracle, healer, a guide”, a man who patterned the “discipline of monks”, “God’s gentleman” and man whom would bring joy to Athanasius. Accolades aside the story of Saint Antony the Great or Saint Antony of Egypt has greatly formed various parts of Christianity – monasticism, the Coptic Church, Athanasius (whose conviction against Arianism helped bring about the Nicean Creed) are just a few of such influences. While he has had such an impact there has been little taught of him to the Western Protestant Church – which has caused an ignorance in our understanding of church development. In this paper I hope to bring to light brief understanding of who Saint Antony was.
I will attempt to weave various voices in an attempt to offer a cohesive paper that will first look at a brief history of Antony, then key issues with the sources about him, the mythos surrounding Antony, his effect of asceticism and lastly discuss the necessity knowing of Saint Antony.
This paper will attempt to explore the place of doubt in testimony. Or put another way, how can w... more This paper will attempt to explore the place of doubt in testimony. Or put another way, how can we faithfully express seasons of doubt, areas of darkness and unresolved “issues” in the Pentecostal practice of testimony. For whether it is finished work, or Christian perfection - the space for unresolved portions of testimony are often not given.This paper hopes to offer another perspective out of history rather than Scriptural basis, as we will look at John Wesley’s own writings of his journey of doubt, assurance and testimony.
This paper attempts to explore the keys parts of the Hussite Reformation and to look at how Jan H... more This paper attempts to explore the keys parts of the Hussite Reformation and to look at how Jan Hus’ De Ecclesia laid out some significant ecclesiological critiques of the church of his day. We will then jump a century ahead as we look to Count Nicholas Zinzendorf and the Moravian movement’s lived out ecclesiology. Lastly, I will bring this two into dialogue with Pentecostal ecclesiology and how Hus speaks to us whether explicitly or implicitly.
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I will attempt to weave various voices in an attempt to offer a cohesive paper that will first look at a brief history of Antony, then key issues with the sources about him, the mythos surrounding Antony, his effect of asceticism and lastly discuss the necessity knowing of Saint Antony.
I will attempt to weave various voices in an attempt to offer a cohesive paper that will first look at a brief history of Antony, then key issues with the sources about him, the mythos surrounding Antony, his effect of asceticism and lastly discuss the necessity knowing of Saint Antony.