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Catholicism Not a Good Predictor of Convictions
This article, put out by the secular press, highlights a point I have made repeatedly on this blog: there is a great lack of unity of conviction among Roman Catholics (link). Key quotation: But scholars of religion and the Supreme Court also say that the court’s Catholics have spanned the ideological spectrum, from William J.…
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Evidence for Recent Fossilization
That’s how I’d characterize the linked article, that describes alleged findings of dinosaur proteins, an unlikely event if the sample were really 65 Million years old (link). Caveat: Scientists dispute findings all the time. I wouldn’t be surprised to see folks try to challenge these findings as well. -TurretinFan To God be the Glory!
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Epistemology Debate Proposal
As folks have noticed, at least some of the members of Triablogue is not pleased with my take on apologetics/epistemology. Unfortunately, the unstructured format of comment box discussions has lead to a disintegration of discussions there. Accordingly, I’d like to offer a debate proposal to Mr. Manata or if he refuses to Mr. Hays. Here’s…
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Knowledge of God
How do we know God? The answer to this is two-fold: through the external ministry of the word and the internal ministry of the Spirit. The external ministry of the word is the preached gospel. It is a proclamation of that which has been handed down to us from the prophets, evangelists, and apostles –…
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Thus Saith the LORD – The Scriptural Apologetic of Dogmatism
The man was surprisingly spry, considering his age. Some of the locals attributed this to the fact that he had a young wife and two young sons – he has stay young to take care of them, they said. Others considered it to be due to his oddly Egyptian manner of diet and exercise. Still…
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Epistemic Certainty – Competing Warrants
I really don’t Mr. Manata’s fascination with Sudduth. Sudduth’s fundamental problem in his attempt to bolster his thesis that “theistic belief (and belief in other theological propositions) is not epistemically certain” is his essential relativism. This is seen in his frequent appeals to consensus authority at critical junctures (“Most accounts of epistemic certainty are tied…
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Augustine and the Immaculate Conception
In a recent video, Mr. William Albrecht discusses the issue of Augustine and the modern Roman Catholic teaching of the Immaculate Conception (link to video). While Mr. Albrecht makes an interesting admission, his comments don’t go far enough. Thus, while I congratulate him on not following in the footsteps of a number of Rome’s apologists,…
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Patristics Resouces
I realize that there are some of my readers who follow the blog via Google Reader (or other feed readers). Those who do so may not specifically have noticed that I have two sidebars on the blog: one is a list of links to indices of notable patrologies (collections of writings of the church fathers)…
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Eastern Patrology (Patrologia Orientalis) & Syriac Patrology (Patrologia Syriaca) – Index Page
This is an index of the freely available on-line versions of Patrologia Orientalis (Eastern Patrology) and its immediate predecessor, the Patrologia Syriaca (Syriac Patrology). Both are edited by the Institut Pontifical Oriental de Rome. I am thankful to the following helpful website for providing information as to the content of the volumes (link). The primary…
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Eastern Patrology (Patrologia Orientalis) & Syriac Patrology (Patrologia Syriaca) – Index Page
This is an index of the freely available on-line versions of Patrologia Orientalis (Eastern Patrology) and its immediate predecessor, the Patrologia Syriaca (Syriac Patrology). Both are edited by the Institut Pontifical Oriental de Rome. I am thankful to the following helpful website for providing information as to the content of the volumes (link). The primary…