1. We cannot overstate that no person outside the Bible has been as influential to Christian theology as Augustine.
  2. Origen is wrong about stuff, but he had the foresight to say that if he was wrong, he was open to correction.
  3. Cyprian actually rejected the accusation that he believed in rebaptism because he considered only the baptism within the church to be a valid or true baptism.
  4. Pelagius maintained an orthodox appearance while rejecting original sin and the distinction between law and gospel.
  5. Instead of defining the true church in the way of the law, Augustine approaches the issue pastorally in the way of the gospel.
  6. Understanding the doctrine of the hypostatic union can help us understand what God is up to in the Incarnation.
  7. The danger of denying the truth of our common human fallenness and brokenness by original sin is that the denial of this doctrine may also lead us to the denial of Christ as our Savior.
  8. It was reported that Hus died singing, “Christ, son of the living God, have mercy on me.”
  9. The creeds provide a means of unified confession that is biblically sound, transcending denominational lines of demarcation.
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