Category: Carl Trueman

  • Carl Trueman on the Dangers of the Free Press

    Professor Carl Trueman has some less than positive comments on the expanded freedom of the press that has occurred in the Internet age. Per Trueman: Yet even as this increasing freedom is to be welcomed, it is not without inherent problems. In the past, if I wanted to tell you my views on subatomic physics,…

  • Don’t Sweat that History Stuff …

    Carl Trueman expresses his frustration with attempts to force Roman apologists to confront history: Thus, as all sides need to face empirical facts and the challenges they raise, here are a few we might want to consider, along with what seem to me (as a Protestant outsider) to be the usual Roman Catholic responses: Empirical…

  • Carl Trueman’s "Reasons … For Moving Romeward"

    No, Carl Trueman isn’t moving Romeward, but he has post listing reasons that he thinks people give for leaving (link to post). But the reasons given for leaving was not exactly the question posed to him. The question posed to him was the reasons that people leave for Rome. Trueman listed a lot of salient…

  • Quasi-Interview with Carl Trueman on Rome as "Default"

    Someone recently quoted Dr. Carl Trueman to me in this way: “Every year I tell my Reformation history class that Roman Catholicism is, at least in the West, the default position. Rome has a better claim to historical continuity and institutional unity than any Protestant denomination… in the light of these facts, therefore, we need…