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Garry Wills on Augustine and the Real Presence
Garry Wills is the author of “Why I am a Catholic,” but also of “Why Priests?” and “Papal Sins: Structures of Deceit.” His “Lincoln at Gettysburg” won a Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote a biography of Augustine, St. Augustine (a Penguin Lives Biography). So, it might be good for folks to pay attention when he says…
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Hoffer – Real Presence and Transubstantiation
Paul Hoffer had posted some responses in our on-going dialog regarding Augustine and transubstantiation, which included the following kind of comment: Before we begin addressing errors and omissions specific to Turretinfan’s commentary on Sermon 272, I would refer the reader to Part I where I have already addressed Mr. Fan’s apparent confusion between the term…
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Rome Doesn’t Teach the Physical Presence?
Justin Taylor has re-posted an unhelpful portion of Chris Castaldo’s “Three Misnomers to Avoid.” Technically, I don’t think that the three items that Mr. Castaldo identifies would meet the definition of “misnomers,” just alleged mistakes. What are those mistakes? 1. “Catholics teach that Christ is “physically present” in the Mass.” Incidentally, there is a misnomer…
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Augustine on the Presence of Christ
When people try to claim that Augustine held to the modern Roman view of transubstantiation, one particular problem for them may be in dealing with Augustine’s comments regarding the presence of Christ. The following are comments from Augustine that demonstrate that he did not hold to the idea of a bodily, carnal, fleshly, physical presence,…
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Augustine vs. Albrecht on the Bodily Presence – Round 2
This is video response to William Albrecht’s two videos ( video 1 and video 2 ) responding to previous videos of mine, responding to a still previous video of his. I continue to point out Mr. Albrecht’s errors. I have 11 points: 1) The issue is bodily presence vs. spiritual presence (not real presence vs.…
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Augustine vs. Modern Catholicism
Augustine, as demonstrated in the video below had a view of the Real presence that was more similar to the Reformed (or Orthodox) view, than to the Lutheran or Roman Catholic view. Skip to 5 minutes, 30 seconds, for the relevant material. The first five and half minutes are interesting, but mostly relevant to the…