Tag: Development

Constructing Antichrist: The Development of Doctrine in the Middle Ages

We ask you, brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our assembling with him, not to be shaken out of your minds suddenly, or to be alarmed either by a “spirit,” or by an oral statement, or by a letter allegedly from us to the
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St. Bonaventure’s Medieval Theory of Doctrinal Development

It is often assumed that the quandary of doctrinal development first came to the fore in the modern period with the advent of a new historical consciousness and unprecedented access to historical documents and artifacts that were largely absent to our medieval predecessors. As a result, the common narrative tends
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