Bible studies, church history, systematic theology, and Christian apologetics by Dr. Peter J. Carter, D.Min.
Why do we instinctively believe that every claim should be examined, reasoned through, and defended? That instinct was cultivated, sharpened, and defended. Trace the path from Socratic dialectic through Jewish covenantal culture to the intellectual DNA of Western civilization.
Christianity spread along two intellectual tracks: a Jewish textual/covenantal stream and a Greco-Roman philosophical stream. Their collision in early councils shaped doctrine for centuries.
The doctrinal tensions within Christianity trace back to a foundational divergence: the collision of Hebraic, Greek, Eastern, and Roman intellectual frameworks in the early Church.