Ashgate Catholicity And Heresy In The Early Church Nov

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in academic circles, it is nowadays unnecessary to prove that the teachings of the Christian churches have a history, that the doctrines of the trinity, of the union of two natures in the incarnate Christ, of the fall and the atonement, of the real presence in the sacrament and of the church itself as the body of Christ were not communicated as a system to the apostles, even by the risen Jesus. again it is unnecessary to demonstrate that the growth is in part the result of the incubation of the gospel in a particular environment,1 and not merely the unfolding of an
embryonic pattern according to some instinctive or organic principle.