2009-12-30T17:43:20-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com http://www.gospel.com/feeds/topics/in+context http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/vladimir/ 2009-12-30T17:43:20-05:00 How Vladimir came to accept Orthodoxy for Rus through the reports of his ambassadors, the twenty-fourth in Christian History Institute's series In Context. http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/gregory/ 2009-11-23T16:02:53-05:00 Pope Gregory the Great says that anyone who takes the title "Ecumenical Priest" (or Universal Priest) anticipates the antichrist. http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/sixth-council/ 2009-11-23T15:59:30-05:00 The Sixth Ecumenical Council, with input from Pope Agatho, defined the church's official teaching on the nature and person of Jesus Christ. http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/pirmin/ 2009-11-23T15:55:23-05:00 Pirmin, founder of monasteries in central Europe, recorded for the west the first full text of the Apostles' Creed. http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/benedict/ 2009-10-23T19:27:47-05:00 Benedict of Nursia was the greatest of the western founders of monastic orders. His rule's strength lay in pointing men to Christ. This is one of Christian History Institute's famous quotations "In Context." http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/boethius/ 2009-10-23T19:24:59-05:00 At first, when on death row, Boethius felt sorry for himself; but then he remembered his classical training, and took comfort in philosophy, penning a masterpiece of the Middle Ages. This is one of Christian History Institute's series of famous Christian quotations "In Context." http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/jerome/ 2009-10-23T19:21:42-05:00 In giving the wealthy widow Ageruchia his reasons against remarriage, Jerome frets over what it will mean if Rome falls to the barbarians in this quotation from Christian History Institute's "In Context" series. http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/augustine/ 2009-09-24T12:23:24-05:00 Christian History Institute's "In Context" provides the background of theologian Augustine of Hippo's famouse saying, "Our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee." http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/cyprian/ 2009-08-26T17:00:57-05:00 Christian History Institute presents the story behind a famous saying by Cyprian, bishop of North Africa, on who has God for Father. This is number 10 in the In Context series. http://chitorch.org/index.php/in-context/constantine/ 2009-08-26T16:57:28-05:00 Christian History Institute provides the story behind Constantine's vision and one of the most famous quotations in church history. This is the eleventh of the In Context series.