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Changed Lives
Uniting Personal Faith and the Larger Church
What I learned from reading the letters of Ignatius of Antioch.
by Patrick Henry Reardon
posted 06/29/06
From Issue 90
I was raised in a serious and devout Christian home, and among my earliest memories was the deep conviction that Jesus was my Friend and Savior. I vividly recall my childhood home as a school of piety. We also belonged to a local church, where the things I learned at home were very much reinforced. In most ways, in fact, our congregation was just an extension of our family. More …
July 6, 1054: Church legates of the Roman pope march into the church of Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, and place a bull on the altar, excommunicating him. So began of the Great Schism between the Catholics and the Orthodox. (see Issue 54: Eastern Orthodoxy).
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Who said, "Christianity … becomes a work of splendor when it is hated of the world"?
A. Tertullian
B. Cyril of Alexandria
C. Augustine of Hippo
D. Ignatius of Antioch
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It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.
—Ignatius of Antioch (35-120)
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