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Obergefell is Law
Some dear friends have been going around claiming that Obergefell(fn1) isn’t the law of the land. These dear friends are wrong. But the Constitution vests all legislative authority in the Congress! Yes all federal legislative authority is Congressional, but legislation isn’t the only kind of law. There are also laws that come from the executive…
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Calvinism vs. Reformed Molinism Debate
The debate has been posted at the Seeing God Ministries website (link to page)(direct link to mp3). The debate pitted Reformed Molinists Richard Bushey and Zachary Lawson against myself and Josh Sommer. To God be the Glory!
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Unlawful Orders and Options – Some Thoughts on Persecution
Steve Hays has already provided some excellent thoughts on the issue of unlawful orders over at Triablogue (link). In supplement of those thoughts, I wanted to add a couple of additional semi-related points. 1) Distinguishing Permitted Disobedience from Required Disobedience In some cases, when someone in authority over us commands us to do something, we…
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Commentary on the Book of Jonah – Haimo of Auxerre
I’m grateful to translator Deborah Everhart (and in general the consortium for the teaching of the Middle Ages) for providing a very readable translation from the original Latin of Haimo of Auxerre’s Commentary on Jonah. Haimo died around A.D. 875. So this is not an “early church” commentary, but it is part of Western church…
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John of Damascus Interpreting James 2:26
It was interesting to read a late patristic-era author (his death is sometimes used as the end of the patristic era) interpreting James 2:26. In An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, vol. 4, chapter 9, “Concerning Faith and Baptism,” (PG 94:1121-22) John of Damascus writes (translation available here, emphasis mine): It behooves us, then, with…
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Pseudo-Augustine "Doubt is an element of Faith"
One of my friends pointed out to me a quotation attributed to Augustine, but which didn’t sound Augustinian. My friend’s suspicions were correct. The quotation in question was this: “Doubt is an element of faith.” I found this attributed to Augustine in a number of sources: “Doubt, as Saint Augustine wrote, is actually an element…
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Pseudo-Augustine "Doubt is an element of Faith"
One of my friends pointed out to me a quotation attributed to Augustine, but which didn’t sound Augustinian. My friend’s suspicions were correct. The quotation in question was this: “Doubt is an element of faith.” I found this attributed to Augustine in a number of sources: “Doubt, as Saint Augustine wrote, is actually an element…
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Molinism – Responses to a Some Attempted Defenses
Someone posting under the name Richard Bushey has a post attempting to defend Molinism against some of the criticisms offered by my friend, Dr. James White (link). I’d like to rebut a few points. Is Molinism too heavily reliant on philosophy? Mr. Bushey argues that philosophy is inherent to every kind of theology. However, that…
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Calling Discernment Bloggers to Use More Discernment
Chris Bolt did an excellent job of debunking JD Hall’s inaccurate criticism of Karen Swallow Prior (link to Chris’ post). I was disappointed to see that JD has not repented of his post, but instead has doubled down on it with a new post insinuating the same kinds of things as the original post. I…