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You're welcome. I have also seen online coursework available at Sattler College in Boston on "The Historic Faith" that looks like it may include some Q&A sessions with Bercot and maybe the ability to get patristics-related questions answered through connections with other universities ...

All of Bercot's bibliographies and other reference notes that I know of are from the ANF, searchable online at ccel.org/fathers , the only exceptions being later-discovered works that he cites in some places from CUA and other sources. I have a question about this - did you get this information fro...

I'm content to leave the discussion of this specific example here and let interested parties read the letter for themselves and judge if Bercot's presentation and yours above accurately represent the text. That is fine with me as well. I will just say that Bercot's frequent insistence on reading an...

Persisting as a master and teacher was, from the beginning of the letter, the issue, not continuing at the theater as if nothing had changed. Cyprian's whole argument is that this is a continuance of the problem in another, perhaps worse form, and he also addresses the reason for the actor's resista...

Bercot does not specify what translation he used in his citation. If the translation changes the meaning, I'm happy to accept that if evidence is provided. As to your other points, I addressed them in what I wrote. All of Bercot's bibliographies and other reference notes that I know of are from the...

Here is my promised expansion. Bercot writes that the actor "realized he had to change his employment because most plays encouraged immorality and were steeped in pagan idolatry." Here is how the letter by Cyprian begins (I'm using the translation by Sister Rose Bernard Donna, C.S.J, publ...

Don't rely on Bercot for information about "early church doctrines, concepts, and practices." I've been reading through his Real Heretics book, and he is not a good historian. Can you give me something to "hang my hat on" with that? An assertion doesn't work well as evidence or ...

Ernie can more accurately place them. I am taking my best guess based on experiences I have had. Personally I don't have much use, except historical, for second century writings. By that point, apostasy and false doctrine was rampant. Forgive me as I am not from Anabaptist background but am trying ...

Don't rely on Bercot for information about "early church doctrines, concepts, and practices." I've been reading through his Real Heretics book, and he is not a good historian. Can you give me something to "hang my hat on" with that? An assertion doesn't work well as evidence or ...

Is anybody familiar with the Disciples' Fellowship in Westfield Massachusetts? I've seen them before when I was in western MA and assumed they were the church from Russell, but they seem to be their own group. Their website lists John H Yoder's 1977 Confession of Faith which I've never seen on a ch...