Written for the 500th Anniversary of the first Reformation Day on October 31, 1517, Forged From Reformation shows How Dispensational Though Advances the Reformed Legacy.

Students of early Christianity have debated the question of how Christians organized themselves on the issue of caring for the poor dead in comparison and contrast with the prevailing Greco-Roman cultural milieu. The question has centered specifically on the place of the collegia in early Christianity.

Debates on whether early Christians relied solely on exorcism and other miraculous healing under the assumption that all diseases are a result of demonic activity, continue. On the one end of this scholarly continuum are those who hold that early Christians only approached disease and healing as purely spiritual phenomena (hence, focusing on exorcism and other kinds of miraculous healing), while, on the other end, others have argued that early Christians accepted a naturalistic view of the causes for diseases and, consequently, sought naturalistic solutions to diseases.