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Response to Armstrong’s Historical Revisionism
In a post today, Dave Armstrong claims: “And Protestants continue to argue that folks can disagree on the “secondary” issues and still have unity. Nuh-uh. That ain’t a biblical view. The original Protestants didn’t argue this way at all. They felt that they had spiritual and theological truth and fought for it. It’s only when…
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Ponter’s Massive Calvin Quotations – A Quick Note
I’m in the process of carefully reviewing a recent massive post by David Ponter, full of quotations from English translations of John Calvin’s writings and preachings. My initial impression upon skimming through the post was that it was simply cherry-picked quotations designed to convey Ponter’s basic thesis. Having looked into the matter a bit deeper,…
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This is Catholic Internet Apologetics and a Reasonable Response thereto
GNRHead posted a two-part diatribe broadsiding Dr. White with a significant number of accusations, even taking time to wave his finger at the camera and insist that Dr. White should be ashamed of himself. Dr. White posted the video that I have embedded below that makes short work of the bulk of GNRHead’s argument. There…
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Life of John Calvin
One kind reader recently requested that I provide a biography of John Calvin. This is something that I’d rather leave to other people. Here are some links to excellent brief biographies of Calvin. Some interesting contextualization of Calvin here:http://www.lgmarshall.org/Daubigne/daubigne_refhistory12_15.html Here’s a fairly good, quick, biography:http://www.apuritansmind.com/Reformation/McMahonLifeOfCalvin.htm And here is a slightly more lengthy one:http://www.gtc.ac.nz/publications/John%20Calvin.pdf However, the…