Worth revisiting: The Pattern of Christian Truth
by Timothy George
First Things, June/July 2005

Excerpt: "A Church that cannot distinguish heresy from truth, or, even worse, a Church that no longer thinks this is worth doing, is a Church which has lost its right to bear witness to the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ who declared himself to be not only the Way and the Life, but also the Truth."

This essay is a brilliant discussion of how three heretics of the early church, Marcion, Arius and Pelagius, made the Church respond to their heresies with the truth of the Christian faith, mainly through its confessions and creeds. This is not only ancient history, but rather something that could be compared to the Church's struggles today to assert the orthodox faith. -PD

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