Mark BriansAnglican? Is that like Episcopalian? What's the difference? On one level, there is a general confusion as to what these words mean in their historical and grammatical sense. On another level, there is confusion surrounding how the meanings of these...
Michael A.G. Azad HaykinBaptists comprise one of the largest denominational bodies in the Christian world. But what do Baptists believe? In this article, we’ll seek to answer that question, first, by exploring Baptist origins in the renewal movement of Puritanism...
Steven WedgeworthDoes God plan everything ahead of time? If so, does that mean humans lack free will, that we are like robots? Such topics lead to questions about salvation: Does God save only those he’s chosen in advance? And, if so, how is that fair? These are the...
Sandra GlahnIn Acts 19:35, the Ephesus city clerk refers to an image that fell from heaven. What was this image that fell from heaven?
Elyse FitzpatrickMy hope is that this short article will pique your interest and invite you to see how women were indeed integral to the founding of the church—and so are integral in the flourishing of yours.
Tim PerryAnother Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has passed, and a recent picture of current Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, blessing Pope Francis has, at least in some quarters, generated controversy. Recent convert to Catholicism and former...
Kyle HughesWhat is heresy? While this term is often casually thrown around in the many wars of words on social media, it does have a historic technical usage in the context of Christian theology. Simply put, we can define heresy as the deliberate affirmation...
Sean LukeThe risen Lord, Jesus of Nazareth, the Word-made-flesh, established for himself a great company of saints which is, as it were, the Word-confessed. The church is the company of saints who confess Christ while being sustained by the Word’s “continual...
Michael F. BirdI’ve recently been teaching a course titled The History of Heresy, which my students have seen as an incredibly fun and informative way to learn about the formation and defense of Christian orthodoxy. We covered the good, the bad, and the ugly of...
Ryan LyttonWhat does Pentecostal mean? The word comes from the Greek pentekoste, which means fiftieth. This will explore how Pentecostalism began, the first hundred years of the movement, and how Pentecostalism differs from Evangelicalism.
It’s common for Christians today to think of their church bodies as denominations; that is, different varieties of a common religion. This tendency is so pervasive that churches who want to shed conventional labels will even call themselves non...
Daniel R. HydeWhat is Reformed theology? In the land where the Azusa Street Revival, International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Calvary Chapel, and Saddleback Church had their birth and continue their influence, I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been...
Robert ElmerEven beyond the earliest examples in the book of Acts, Christians throughout history have experienced many of the same challenges and frustrations we face. They wrestled with materialism and obedience to God, with sharing their faith and worries and...
What is Calvinism? Any attempt to give just one answer is sure to be wrong. Calvinism is not a church or a denomination. Calvinism is not even (just) a system of doctrine. Instead, Calvinism is a broad religious tradition with certain shared views...
Karen EngleIt’s women’s history month—and March 8 was International Women’s Day. To celebrate, we’re highlighting 20 Christian women in Church history who served God in both extraordinary and ordinary ways. 1. Priscilla (first century AD) Though the Bible...
Kyle BeutlerWhen I asked a Logos expert what was so great about the Church History features in Logos, it didn’t go as expected: “Kyle, let me ask you a different question. How much do you know about church history?” “Let’s see. I know Factbook is a huge part...
Tobin PerryWhat is hermeneutics? Hermeneutics is any effort to interpret the meaning of communication, particularly communication that is being interpreted in a different cultural context. In the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, Bernard C. Lategan says about...
Jason StoneWhat you’ll see in this Logos Live episode Jennifer Grisham interviews Drs. Anneke Stasson and Leanne Dzubinski about their book Women in the Mission of the Church: Their Opportunities and Obstacles throughout Christian History. Hear their...
Jennifer GrishamSince the first century, women have been active in the theology and mission of the Church. Luke–Acts reveals how Jesus and the apostles cared for women and enlisted them in kingdom service, and John contains the astonishing tale of how Jesus carried...
When we look back on Church history, we see lots of familiar names and stories, like the revolutionary time Martin Luther read Romans or Jonathan Edwards preached his most famous sermon. So many stories like these have been passed down for...
Logos StaffDr. Joshua Jipp highlights some key insights from the book of Acts (0:10), and an animated look at John 1:1–5 (3:00). Study Colossians with Dr. Jipp In this course, Dr. Joshua Jipp takes you through each passage of Colossians, identifying important...
“There was something to that singular moment of the posting of the 95 Theses that not only changed Church history, [it] changed world history for centuries to come.” — Stephen Nichols, President of Reformation Bible College *** On...
Dr. Joshua Jipp highlights some key insights from the book of Acts (0:10), and we get an animated look at John 1:1–5 (3:00). Study Colossians with Dr. Jipp In this course, Dr. Joshua Jipp takes you through each passage of Colossians, identifying...