critical-thinking/course_outline/course15-Religious Studies/christianity/README.md

History of Christianity

• Early Church Fathers
• Apostolic Fathers

1. Christian_denominational_families
2. Christian_philosophers_by_denomination
3. Christian_scholars_by_denomination
4. Christian_theological_movements
5. List of Christian Denominations
6. History_of_Christian_universalism
7. East West Schism
8. Persecution_of_Christians
9. Christian_theology_by_tradition
10. Mosaic Authorship
11. Biblical Authorship and Dating
12. Biblical Archeology
13. Early Christian Writings apocrypha
    • Infancy Gospel
    • Gospel of Judas
    • Gospel of Barnabas
    • Gnostic Archive
14. New_Testament_apocrypha
15. The_Lost_Books_of_the_Bible_and_the_Forgotten_Books_of_Eden
16. Apocrypha
17. New_Testament_apocrypha
18. Ethipoian Bible, Protestant Bible, and Catholic Bible
19. Development of Christian Biblical Canon
20. Oriental Orthodox Churches
21. Ethipoian Orthodox
22. Dead Sea Scrolls
23. Books of Samuel
24. Logos
25. Trinity and History
26. Christianity and Judaism
27. Christian Fundamentalism
28. Christian Reconstructionism
29. List_of_Christian_denominations_by_number_of_members
30. 4_Maccabees
31. On Jews and their Lies
32. The Use of the New Testament in the American Slave Controversy: A Case History in the Hermeneutical Tension between Biblical Criticism and Christian Moral Debate
33. Vatican Apostolic Archive
34. Internal_consistency_of_the_Bible
35. Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home
36. Satisfaction_theory_of_atonement
37. Origen of Alexandria
38. Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
39. On the Soul
40. Soul in the Bible
    • Soul Not Biblical
41. Platos Theory of Soul
42. Anthropic_Bias
43. Anonymous Gospel Writers
44. Soul
45. Apollonius_of_Tyana
46. Interpreters Bible Series
47. Christianity_and_Ancient_Greek_philosophy
    • Agape
    • Logos
    • Neoplatonism
    • Osiris, Romulus, Resurrection models
    • Early Christian History
    • Greco-Roman Context
48. Josephus_on_Jesus
49. Gospel_of_Marcion
    • Priority_of_the_Gospel_of_Marcion
    • Marcion_of_Sinope
    • Tertullian: Against Marcion, Book I
    • Tertullian: Against Marcion, Book IV
    • Marcion and the Marcionites
    • The Marcion Problem: Irenaeus
    • Against_Heresies_(Irenaeus)
    • Tertullian's Evidence vs. Epiphanius
50. Textual Variants in NT
51. Miracle of the Sun
52. Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus
53. Predestination
54. Christian Identity
55. Martin LutherAbout Weeds
56. Tertullian
57. Pelagianism
58. Augustinians
59. Order of Saint Augustine
60. Substitution_hypothesis
61. Miraculous_births in Ancient times
62. Fate of the Unlearned
63. Non Trinitarianism
64. Manichaeism
65. Satanic Panic
66. Quiet Revolution
67. De spectaculis

Great Content from Scripture and Church Fathers

Verses

1. Deuteronomy 22:13-21
2. Revelation 2:22 and Analysis
3. 2 Kings 2:23-24
4. Genesis 19:32-35
5. Numbers 5:11-21

AUGUSTINE

They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. The saints knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted with the eternal sufferings of the lost. [The City of God, Book 20, Chapter 22, "What is Meant by the Good Going Out to See the Punishment of the Wicked" & Book 22, Chapter 30, "Of the Eternal Felicity of the City of God, and of the Perpetual Sabbath"]

TERTULLIAN

What a spectacle when the world and its many products, shall be consumed in one great flame! How vast a spectacle then bursts upon the eye! What there excites my admiration? What my derision? Which sight gives me joy??As I see illustrious monarchs groaning in the lowest darkness, Philosophers as fire consumes them! Poets trembling before the judgment-seat of Christ! I shall hear the tragedians, louder-voiced in their own calamity; view play-actors in the dissolving flame; behold wrestlers, not in their gymnasia, but tossing in the fiery billows. What inquisitor or priest in his munificence will bestow on you the favor of seeing and exulting in such things as these? Yet even now we in a measure have them by faith in the picturings of imagination. [De Spectaculis, Chapter XXX]

THOMAS AQUINAS

In order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned. So that they may be urged the more to praise God. The saints in heaven know distinctly all that happens to the damned. [Summa Theologica, Third Part, Supplement, Question XCIV, "Of the Relations of the Saints Towards the Damned," First Article, "Whether the Blessed in Heaven Will See the Sufferings of the Damned?"]

JONATHAN EDWARDS

The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell? I tell you, yea! Such will be his sense of justice that it will increase rather than diminish his bliss. ["The Eternity of Hell Torments" (Sermon), April 1739 & Discourses on Various Important Subjects, 1738]

Revelation 14:9-11; 18:20, 19:3

They shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the smoke of their torment shall ascend up forever and ever. Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her. And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.