What can man know about God? This question became one of the main problems during the 4th-century Trinitarian controversy, which is the focus of this book. Especially during the second phase of the conflict, the claims of Anomean Eunomius caused an emphatic response of Orthodox …
This book deals with the 4th-century Trinitarian controversy, which had a profound impact on negative theology. Eunomius claimed that we can know both the substance (ousia) and activities (energeiai) of God, whereas Cappadocians demonstrated the incomprehensibility of God's esse…
This book provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. The author examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholdi…
Focusing on the slaveholding border state of Missouri, Houses Divided shows that congregational and local denominational schisms, which arose initially over the moral question of African-American bondage, played a central role in sectionalism, Civil War, and Reconstruction.
"If Christians are supposedly all about love, why do we seem to fight so much? With a personal touch and the trained eye of a social scientist, Cleveland brings to bear the latest studies and the research on the unseen dynamics at work that tend to separate us. Here are the tool…
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. Learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions, the unseen dynamics at work t…
Despite Jesus' prayer that all Christians "be one," divisions have been epidemic in the body of Christ. Though we may think we know why this happens, Christena Cleveland says we probably don't. Learn the hidden reasons behind conflict and divisions, the unseen dynamics at work t…
This study explores the theological implications of the 5th-century "Origenism" dispute, when Christian churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy. The author uses social network analysis to explain the personal alliances and enmities of its participants
"Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other's orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of "Origenism" at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen's lifetime in the thi…
