World-class theological education rooted in Scripture and drawing from the Great Tradition.
Joined March 2025
- Tweets232
- Following8
- Followers412
- Likes509
Pinned Tweet
Scholarship without heart is cold. Devotion without the mind is aimless. Dr. Kevin Vanhoozer on the kind of doctoral community we are building at The Alexandrian Institute.
What should a PhD in theology lead to? Dr. Alex Pierce hopes his doctoral students will meet the living God along the way:
"My hope is that friendships will be born, and that Lord willing, we'll come together to know and love God more in the process." ↓
The Alexandrian Institute retweeted
Before the church could confess what she believed about Jesus Christ, she was forced to reckon with a direct challenge to the heart of that confession. In the early fourth century, a presbyter in Alexandria named Arius put forward an account of the Son of God that would ignite a theological crisis spanning generations.
Dr. K.J. Drake writes on Arius's heresy for @AlexandrianInst.
Read the article: alexandrianinstitute.org/art…
ALT Article titled 'Once When He Was Not': The Heresy of Arius by Dr. K.J. Drake.
Augustine, the bishop who consolidated the patristic witness. Origen, the pre-Nicene trailblazer who opened new vistas.
Dr. Alex Pierce on why Christians today have much to learn from both ↓
Why read Christians who lived 1,600 years ago?
"We must read those who lived in different time periods… so that we can avoid the pitfalls and appreciate the peculiarities of our own age."
Dr. Alex Pierce on what the early Church can show us about ourselves ↓
Where does Christian ethics come from?
Not from us, says Dr. Gregory Parker Jr. In dogmatics, God descends to us in grace. In ethics, we ascend back to Him in gratitude, obedience, and love, by the Spirit. ↓
Seven years. One Greek word.
@courtneyveasey traced καταστολή in 1 Timothy 2:9 across the wider Greek world and found a virtue term for self-restraint.
“The Scriptures are infallible as we know, but we as translators are fallible.”
Meet the Scholars ↓
"That we might have the forest of Scripture and rightly see the trees."
@Dennis_Greeson says the rule of faith grew out of Scripture itself, and it sends us back into Scripture to read it better. ↓
youtu.be/hLeXtLDQxK4?si=P3Yl…
Exiled five times. Opposed by four emperors. Bishop for nearly half a century. Athanasius staked his office on the faith confessed at Nicaea, in an age when "the whole world groaned, and was astonished to find itself Arian."
The Road to Nicaea, Part 3 ↓
alexandrianinstitute.org/art…
Diapers. Milking a cow. Mopping the floor. Cooking a meal. Is any of that culture?
"All of life is cultural, and it's all made so by God." ↓
Augustine and Origen. A late-fourth-century Latin bishop and a third-century Alexandrian trailblazer.
An odd pairing? @Alex_H_Pierce explains why he reads them together, and why the early Church helps us see the pitfalls of our own age.
Meet the Scholars ↓
True wisdom is formed in community. Our Research Fellows met in Fort Worth, Texas, to sharpen one another and strengthen the research culture we are building with @UnionTCollege, Belfast.
Truth. Tradition. Excellence.
4/ Doxological Formation: scholarship in service to the Church and the building up of Christians into the image of Christ.
Learn more about PhD supervision at TAI ↓
alexandrianinstitute.org/pro…
Our Research Fellowship gathering in Fort Worth, mentored by @VanhoozerKevin. Grateful to St Andrew's Anglican Church for a beautiful space to work.
