Questions tagged [chrestomathy-request]
Use on overview questions requesting a breakdown of multiple texts from various Christian traditions.
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What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?
Today's reading on Exodus 90 said:
The early Church writer Tertullian (~155–220 A.D.), known as the father of Western theology, once posed the question, “What has Jerusalem to do with Athens?” The ...
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Survey: English translations of the Nicene Creed
Someone posted a question recently asking about the use, in the Nicene Creed, of the phrase "true God from true God".
This was mildly surprising, as the version I learned uses "very God ...
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What are the different "Marks of the Church" of Christian denominations?
In the Catholic Church, the "Marks of the Church" are what's in the Nicene creed. That she is one, holy, catholic and apostolic. I've seen that the Westminster Catechism has different marks spelled ...
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How do Christian denominations define what the meaning of life is?
The Baltimore Catechism says:
"God made me to know him, to love him, and to serve him in this world and to be happy with him forever in the next."
Many Catholics have this ingrained in their ...
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