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Scripture or "Fitness" – Two Standards Compared
Augustine wrote: It is by these manners of speech, when we speak of things that do not happen to God as though they did, that we acknowledge it is he who makes them happen to us, those things at least that are praiseworthy, and these only to the extent that scriptural usage allows it. I…
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Scripture or "Fitness" – Two Standards Compared
Augustine wrote: It is by these manners of speech, when we speak of things that do not happen to God as though they did, that we acknowledge it is he who makes them happen to us, those things at least that are praiseworthy, and these only to the extent that scriptural usage allows it. I…
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If I Ran the Blogosphere …
No one would be able to protest (on their blogs) what some private citizens are planning on doing in Florida, unless they protested what the U.S. government did in Afghanistan (referring to this). To God be the Glory!
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Thomas Aquinas (and the Fathers of the Church) on Mary's non-Immaculate Conception
Thomas Aquinas did not believe that Mary’s conception was immaculate. In fact he was quite clear about the matter in his Compendium of Theology: As appears from the foregoing exposition, the Blessed Virgin Mary became the mother of God’s Son by conceiving of the Holy Spirit. Therefore it was fitting that she should be adorned…
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Thomas Vincent's "The Shorter Catechism Explained from Scripture" on the Second Commandment
The following is an excerpt from Thomas Vincent’s “The Shorter Catechism Explained” (Question 49)(Question 50)(Question 51)(Question 52) XLIX. Ques. What is the second commandment?Ans. The second commandment is, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath%…
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Thomas Watson's Body of Divinity on the Second Commandment
The following is an extract from Thomas Watson’s Body of Divinity (first part)(second part). The Second Commandment ‘Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt…
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Ergun Caner – PHIL104 "Contemporary World View"
Dr. Ergun Caner has a series of videos associated with the course PHIL104 – Contemporary World View. One particular video is from Week 4, Lecture 9: “Islam.” (link to video – will open in iTunes) I have not watched all of the videos for this course, so I cannot comment on the contents of the…
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Ergun Caner: Forward to Louis Ruggiero's The God of Calvinism
Ergun Caner’s introduction to Louis Ruggiero’s recently released book is short (two pages). The first page, first sentence is this: “For the first half of my life, I was raised a Muslim. My father, an ulema (that is, a scholar in Islam) drove home the key concepts of Islam that guided every single step of…
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Caner: "Written on the Wall of the Mosque in Kabul"
Someone has provided a nice amalgamation clip that compares Caner’s two accounts of what is written on the wall of a mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwdITMs6VDY?fs=1&hl=en_US&w=640&h=385] Notice that the English is seemingly the same, but the non-English is different. Is this simply Caner faking a foreign language, or is Caner actually saying something in…
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Fisher's Catechism on the Second Commandment
James Fisher, Ralph Erskine, and Ebenezer Erskine produced a meta-catechism, a catechism designed to explain and explicate the Westminster Shorter Catechism. It was originally released in 1753, though it was revised and ultimately released in the form below by James Fisher in 1765. As explained in the introduction, while these three men were involved, they…