Pyatcast

Category: Church History

  • When did Roman Catholicism Begin?

    Over at Greenbaggins, Scott asked: TF, when, exactly, do you believe Roman Catholicism began? I answer: If Roman Catholicism is defined by her (supposedly) infallibly defined dogmas, her birthday is November 1, 1950, which is when her pope defined the fiction of the bodily assumption. If she is defined by the last (supposedly) ecumenical council…

  • Robert Godfrey – The Inventions of Rome

    I don’t know about you, but I wish Jason Stellman had paid more attention to Dr. Robert Godfrey’s church history class. Here is some material that, presumably, he missed: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs3gAXtMOBo&w=560&h=315][youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uamKzu8yp4&w=560&h=315] If you subscribe to Modern Reformation, you can get the related article here (link). It would be nice if the article were made…

  • Early Muslim/Christian Debate – a Proto Two Kingdoms Apologetic

    The Letter of Mor Yuhannon [John] (d. 649), the Patriarch, Concerning the discussion which he had with the Amir of the Mhaggraye, provides for us one of the earliest records of debates between Christians and Muslims. A complete translation can be found at the following link (link). It’s worth noting that in the discussion Mor…

  • 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…

  • Who Cares about Historical Theology?

    Jason Stellman has posted an article in which he says: It seems to me that all this effort on the part of Catholics to prove that the fathers are on their team, and (especially) all the effort on the part of Protestants to demolish these claims, is beside the point and can be a distraction…

  • Roman Catholics and History

    One of the problems facing Roman Catholic apologetics generally is history. History demonstrates that many of Rome’s dogmas are not apostolic, coming into being long after the apostolic era. There have been a variety of ways that Roman Catholic apologists have attempted to deal with this problem (from simple denials of the historical fact, to…

  • Who is Barabbas?

    All four of the gospels refer to Jesus’ fellow prisoner, Barabbas, by name. First, I’ll present the four accounts and then some commentary: Matthew 17:15-26: Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. Therefore when they…

  • Non-English Reformation-Era Bibles – Index Page

    The Reformation in the British isles was quite remarkable. In fact, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that other nations and tongues in Europe also experienced the Reformation. That said, I thought I’d try to track down some Reformation-era Bibles in other languages than English and provide those to the interested reader.…

  • >The Importance of Irenaeus

    >An anonymous reader asked: Why are the witings of St. Irenaeus now so suddenly important[?] I thought that his relics were sacked by the Calvinists becaused he was alleged to be a heretic, ie., he is a proponent of Free Will and that his other writings do not support TULIP. The importance of Irenaeus is…

  • Can Papists Properly Call Reformed Churches, Churches?

    Mr. Paul Hoffer referred to Reformed churches by the rather modernist/pluralist terminology of “faith communities. Mr. Mike Burgess has come to Mr. Hoffer’s aid by suggesting that Mr. Hoffer is just being proper, and that properly Reformed churches cannot be said to be churches because they are not part of the true Church. We deny.…