Below is a collection of resources I hope will be helpful to those searching for truth on the important matters of Who God is, who Jesus is, and on the history of Christian beliefs on these topics. Represented below are a variety different opinions, some representative my own, and others not. The inclusion of resources here does not indicate my full agreement with all they say, but simply means that (at the very least) I think they represent something valuable to the study of the history of these topics. All should all be read with discernment.
Many ancient Christian authors recorded a saying of Jesus not found in any of the canonical scriptures, “Be ye skillful money-changers.” That is to say (according to the ancient interpretation of the words) that we must carefully test all things whatsoever, not accepting all that we hear, but carefully testing to tell the difference between those teachings that represent the true “faith handed down once for all” and those that are false and counterfeit.
Ancient Creeds:
Ancient Baptismal Creed of Jerusalem
Ancient Baptismal Creed of Caesarea
Ancient Baptismal Creed of Rome
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Ancient Writings:
Testimonies of Ancient Catholic Writers in Favor of Unitarianism
Hippolytus of Rome on the Earliest Modalists
Church Fathers On the Son Being a Creature
Church Fathers On the Father Being Before the Son
Letter of the Bishop Auxentius on Ulfilas
Homoian Sermon (the “Arian Sermon” written against by Augustine)
Debate Between Maximinus, A Homoian, And Augustine
Highlights from Maximinus’s Debate With Augustine
Maximinus’s Final Discourse (From His Debate With Augustine)
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Reformation & Enlightenment Era Statements of Faith:
John Biddle’s Confession of Faith
George Williams’ Statement of Faith
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Reformation & Enlightenment Era Writings:
Anglican Bishop George Bull on the Subordination of the Son to the Father as His Cause
Historic Anglican Testimonies to the Father in Particular Being the One God
The Introduction to Samuel Clarke’s Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity
Samuel Clarke’s 55 Theses, Part 1: Theses 1-15
Samuel Clarke on Why the Son and Spirit being Divine Does Not Necessarily Entail Tritheism
Highlights from Sir Isaac Newton Concerning the Trinity
John Biddle’s 12 Arguments Showing That the Holy Spirit is Not the One God
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20th & 21st Century Writings:
Reformed Baptist Sam Waldron in Favor of ‘the Monarchy of the Father’/Unitarianism
Modern Eastern Orthodox Theologians on the One God being the Person of the Father
John Behr on Basil of Caesarea’s Theology
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