Great teaching and highly recommend

For the past few years, I have been increasingly drawn to the Eastern Orthodox Church and have attended several Liturgies. Some of the things I have found impactful about the EOC have been: Claims that the EOC compiled what we now call the Canon of Scripture, the Bible, The Councils and Creeds, Their rejection of Absolute Divine Simplicity and the formulation of the Essence/Energy Distinction, their Christology–that Jesus is a Divine Person with a universal human nature, not “two” persons making his receiving the wrath of God on the Cross as punishment for our sins blasphemous and heretical, and also that the writings of the Fathers (as they are called) are just as powerfully sanctified and holy as they are intellectually lofty.

As a former Reformed Protestant for 30 years, I found all of these aspects of the EOC very challenging, impactful and even convincing. I view finding this ministry when I did to be nothing short of Providential.

David Bercot’s presentations were powerful and impactful. And they have effectively changed my thinking about the EOC in various ways that I will be chewing on for some time.

The biggest takeaway from this course, is how convincing the lectures are in demonstrating that the earliest Church leaders did not hold to many of the key practices that the EOC holds so near and dear and essential to their faith and worship.

Powerful.

Dean Taylor is a fantastic teacher. I am ashamed and upset to say that in my six years of studying the Bible in college & seminary this rich history was not talked about once.

I pray this material will start being taught in every church & Christian school.

I found a couple of good ones and one lacking and then some others. I think The Historic Faith courses have spoiled me. This section just wasn’t up to the extremely high standard of all the other courses on here. Please take this as constructive criticism for I am very thankful for all you do