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Publisher of medieval texts and Christian classics

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National identity is important, but when it becomes an idol, it leads to perdition. To the sixth-century Britons, the Saxons were nothing but barbarian invaders. Yet after being Christianised, the English would eventually go on to convert half the Continent in turn and produced.
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Among other most wicked actions, not to be expressed, which their own historian, Gildas, mournfully takes notice of, they added this — that they never preached the faith to the Saxons, or English, who dwelt amongst them; -Bede, Eccl. History 1.22.
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"They that go down into the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; these men have seen the works of the Lord, and His wonders in the deep." — Psalm 106:23-24
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For those interested, we did a whole thread on the Western Iconographic tradition:.
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Kevin Wilbraham
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The 7th century Deesis from the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome depicting Christ flanked by the Virgin and John the Baptist. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #Rome
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"Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart."
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The eternal Creator of the Universe was born here. Let that sink in.
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RT @ByzantineLegacy: The 5th-century Acheiropoietos Church in the early 20th century.Images from Paul Jouve (1916).Plateforme Ouverte du Pa….
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RT @ScriptoriumP: The Christian Symbolism of Levirate Marriage. In the Old Testament, if a woman was widowed, it was the responsibility of….
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For more, see our full book:.
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RT @ComplvtvmC: Seventh Plague of Egypt
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The Egyptians made no appreciable technological 'progress' for 3,000 years. You measure a civilization by its morals and ideas, not its gadgets. Also, stirrups, windmills, and manuscripts were distinctly 'dark age' inventions.
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Anglo-Saxon had three words for 'knowing':. witan (survives in the expression 'to wit').cunnan (modern 'con', used by Shakespeare and others).cnawan (which yielded 'know') . So now you. know!.
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Fun fact: the silent 'k' in 'knowledge' is still pronounced in one word: 'acknowledge'.
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Saint Athanasius on Transubstantiation:. "So long as the prayers of supplication and entreaties have not been made, there is only bread and wine. But after the great and wonderful prayers have been completed, then the bread is become the Body, and the wine the Blood, of our Lord
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We should meditate on this until we fully understand its importance.
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2 Peter 2:1.But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
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RT @chartres_Fiona: The Angel appearing to the shepherds is part of a larger 13thC Life of the Virgin cycle at St Clements, Ashampstead. Th….
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RT @ScriptoriumP: What are the sources of saints' lives?. The 7th-century author Theodore of Alexandria gives us some insight into the meth….
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"To have the same desires and the same aversions, is assuredly a firm bond of friendship." — Sallust. Image: The holy brothers Saint Basil and Saint Gregory of Nyssa
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Did Saint John the Baptist really eat locusts in the desert, as the Bible says (Matthew 3:4)? In the early 13th century, the French bishop Jacques de Vitry asked a Syrian monk to elucidate this question for him and received the following reply:. "Because, however, it did not seem
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I am at a loss as to why people think AI is some kind of revolutionary breakthrough on par with the invention of the internet. Every so often, I ask Chat GPT some questions when I'm conducting research and it's singularly incapable of offering anything but platitudes or lies.
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Is there really such a thing as a 'Judeo-Christian' tradition? Eusebius of Caesarea answers:. "Christianity is neither a form of Heathenism, nor of Judaism, but is something of the greatest antiquity, something natural to the godly men before the times of Moses. Christianity
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