(This is final part of Jacob Head’s guest post series. I appreciate him allowing the use of his material here while I am out of town at a conference.)
First and foremost, a hermeneutical agreement needs to be reached. In this matter there is talk of conscience, equally valid individual exegesis, and private interpretations. I […]

(This is a continuation of the guest post series by Jacob Head, Christians in the Legions.)
I’ve come across some rather interesting statements from early Christians:
Tatian:
I do not want to rule, I do not wish to be rich, I reject military command, I have hated fornication. (Oration 11)
Tertullian:
But now inquiry is made about this point, whether […]

This is a guest post by Jacob Head.
While rereading Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, I stumbled on this little gem:
“On [a legionair’s] first entrance into the service, an oath was administered to him, with every circumstance of solemnity. He promised never to desert his standard, to submit his own will to […]