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Wolves & False Doctrine
Arianism, Gnosticism, Pelagianism, Marcionism — and the councils that answered them. Every major heresy forced the Church to speak with greater precision. These are the controversies that produced orthodoxy.
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2026-05-17Essay
Why the Lord's Supper Divides Christians
The Eucharist is the most thoroughly attested practice of the earliest Church — and the single sacrament that has done the most to keep Christians apart. The reason is not pettiness. It is Christology.
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2026-05-15Essay
Montanism: When Prophecy Claimed to Exceed the Apostles
Montanus claimed the Holy Spirit was speaking through him with a new and final revelation that completed what the apostles had left unfinished. The Church's rejection of his movement defined something essential about how Christian authority works.
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2026-05-14Essay
Pelagius vs. Augustine: The War Over Grace
Pelagianism is the theology of human capability. Augustine's response is still the most precise account of grace, sin, and freedom that Christian theology has produced.
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2026-05-14Essay
Marcion and the God He Refused to Accept
Marcion of Sinope believed the God of the Old Testament was a different — and lesser — deity than the Father of Jesus Christ. His solution was a Bible without the Old Testament.
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2026-05-13Essay
The Gnostic Jesus: What Irenaeus Understood and We Have Forgotten
Gnosticism offered a Jesus who escaped the material world. Irenaeus spent twenty years explaining why that Jesus cannot save anyone.
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2026-05-12Essay
Arianism: The Heresy That Almost Won
Arianism was not a fringe position. For decades it controlled the Church's institutions, filled the episcopal sees, and nearly became Christianity's permanent confession.
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