By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-08-07T04:22:24-04:00July 23rd, 2025|Tags: Christian History by the Century, Christianity, Concepts of God, Plato|
Plato’s influence was initially more significant than Aristotle’s for early Christianity. However, the long-term influence of both of them was not due to their ideas alone, but also to historical circumstances—especially, the timing and scope of Alexander’s military success.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-08-07T04:30:22-04:00June 25th, 2025|Tags: Christian History by the Century, Christianity, Martyr, Plato|
Engage in the collective rethinking of how Christianities evolved across the centuries—past, present, and future. In this post we look at the 5th century BCE.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-04-16T14:39:48-04:00April 23rd, 2025|Tags: Christian Heresies, Genesis, Gnosticism, Martyr, Plato, Revelation|
Since the discovery of a substantial trove of ancient texts—unfamiliar to the modern world until the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries—we’ve begun to hear a different side of the gnostic story, one that’s worth listening to.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2025-01-08T11:48:15-05:00January 8th, 2025|Tags: Ancient Writings, Parables, Plato|
There's a Logos, there's an order that we don't see. And so both Plato and Jesus actually have that quality, just expressed in different ways. For Jesus, his behind-the-scene is the basileia tou theou, the Empire of God. An interview with Dr. David Galston
By Dr. Marko Marina|2023-11-20T04:57:42-05:00November 20th, 2023|Tags: Material World, Noncanonical Texts, Plato, Valentinus, Valentinus Series|
There are no radically negative views on this world and its creation and no particularly positive views of the material world, either. So the essential message of Valentinus’s poem is that everything eventually depends on the divine realm. (Part 2 of 4)
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2026-02-14T05:18:31-05:00December 1st, 2021|Tags: Concepts of God, Demiurge, Dr. James McGrath, Irenaeus, Mandaeans, Plato|
"When you come to the point where you encounter powers that are antithetical to God, then the question of how this could have happened becomes a pressing one." An Interview with Dr. James McGrath.
By Shirley Paulson, PhD|2026-03-24T00:25:38-04:00November 3rd, 2021|Tags: Concepts of God, Demiurge, Marcion, Material World, Plato|
When you have a God that is very different, you get very different human possibilities... An Interview with Dr. Stephen A. Cooper
