Persecution in Early Church: Did You Know?
The achievement brought new difficulties.
In the Roman mind, there were valid religious reasons to halt the spread of Christianity.
Christians held a theology of martyrdom that gave them courage to endure.
Encouragement for believers sentenced to the Roman mines.
Some of his novels mercilessly lampoon Christians. Yet the great Victorian author also wrote a reverent account of Jesus' life.
Selected quotations from The Life of Our Lord.
April 21, 1109: Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury and one of the most profound thinkers of the Middle Ages, dies around age 76. He attained fame for his argument that faith is the precondition of knowledge ("credo ut intelligam"), his "satisfaction theory" of the atonement ("No one but one who is God-man can make the satisfaction by which man is saved") and for his ontological argument for God's existence.