Verbum Humanum

"...elephantine adventures in pursuit of the obvious."

I'm Eric Farkas, currently a mechanical draftsman, as well as a web developer, doing mainly Ruby on Rails. I am also the CTO of TalentSoup, as well as one of the founding members of Sensus Divinitatis Publishing. I have a number of side projects, including SD News, Perplexed Labs, Inc. and GenXCommune. In a past life I was a founding member of HoverSpot.

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November 16, 2009

The Athanasian Creed and the Early Church: Clearly Amillennial

In 1976 Alan Patrick Boyd, a graduate student at Dallas Theological Seminary began a challenging undertaking, writing a masters thesis whose goal was to establish the prophetic faith of the early church fathers. His professor, Dr. Charles Ryrie of Dallas Seminary fame had boldly written "Premillennialism is the historic faith of the Church." But upon completing his thesis, Boyd concluded the following in response, "It is the conclusion of this thesis that Dr. Ryrie's statement is historically invalid within the chronological framework of this thesis [apostolic age through Justin Martyr]." [ 1] (Quoted by Bahnsen and Gentry, p. 235. [ 2] )