Persevering Most Assuredly: One Reason to Prefer Luther over Calvin
I guess I’m starting to wonder whether any of the major players ever really disagreed with each other on the question of assurance of salvation. Everybody seemed to agree, at least at various points in...
View ArticleAugustinian Soteriology
St. Augustine, God rest his soul, can’t be happy about how Western Christians have been fighting over the rights to his theological legacy for the last five hundred years. This in-fighting...
View ArticleThe Canon Question
“I would not have believed the gospel, unless the authority of the Catholic Church had induced me.” (St. Augustine, Contra Ep. Fund., V, 6.) Contents: I. The Canon Question II. Diversity of Theories A....
View ArticleContraception and the Reformed Faith
The Catholic Church has stood, since its inception, firmly against the use of any artificial methods of contraception. In fact, it is the only Christian institution that, as a whole, has held this...
View ArticleHow Are We Saved?
There is no question more important for the Christian than the question of how we are saved. But the Scripture answers this question in apparently various ways as does the Catholic Church from the...
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