A fourfold aim of collating, digitizing, translating, and tracing the Christian doctrine of tongues from inception until 1906.
How the adjective unknown became a crucial contributor to the modern christian doctrine of tongues. No, it was not started by Paul in the first century. The tradition of unknown tongues begins with the Reformation in the sixteenth and evolves from there.
This article is the story about how this unfolded.
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A brief explanation of the gift of tongues project: its scope, purpose and methodology.
The nuances of translating is difficult. One cannot directly translate word for word from one language to another. For example, Origen’s command of Greek presupposed one understands the neo-platonic background that he wrote from. If one produces the translation in a literal fashion, it leaves severe literary gaps that assumes the reader understands the antecedents …
Jacob the min, one of the earliest Jewish Messianic believers documented only in the Talmud.