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Calvinism & General Protestantism: Catholic Critique

Calvinism & General Protestantism: Catholic Critique

Last updated on: October 15, 2026 at 12:04 pm by Dave Armstrong

Calvinism & General Protestantism: Catholic Critique 2026-10-15T12:04:38-04:00 Dave Armstrong

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Calvinism

I. REPLIES TO REFORMED BAPTIST GAVIN ORTLUND

II. REPLIES TO STEVE HAYS

III. CALVINISM AND ST. AUGUSTINE

IV. SACRAMENTS: ESPECIALLY BAPTISM AND THE EUCHARIST

V. PREDESTINATION, SUPRALAPSARIANISM, SOVEREIGNTY, JUDGMENT, UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION

VI. “TULIP”: TOTAL DEPRAVITY / LIMITED ATONEMENT / IRRESISTIBLE GRACE / PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

VII. REPLIES TO FRANCOIS TURRETIN (1623-1687)

VIII. ZWINGLI AND OTHER CALVINISTIC “REFORMERS” / MARIOLOGY IN PARTICULAR

IX. ECUMENISM

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X. ICONOCLASM AND INTOLERANCE

XI. APOLOGETIC METHOD (PRESUPPOSITIONALISM)

XII. GENERAL / MISCELLANEOUS

Protestantism (General)

XIII. THE PROTESTANT WORLDVIEW AND THE SO-CALLED “PROTESTANT REFORMATION” SCRUTINIZED

XIV. THE PROTESTANT “QUEST FOR UNCERTAINTY” / THE SO-CALLED CATHOLIC “PROBLEM” OF THE “INFALLIBILITY REGRESS”

XV. PROTESTANTISM: LOGICALLY SELF-DEFEATING / REDUCTION TO SELF-CONTRADICTION

XVI. DENOMINATIONALISM AND SECTARIANISM

XVII. CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS

XVIII. ANGLICANISM

XIX. JOHN WESLEY

XX. C. S. LEWIS

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CALVINISM

I. REPLIES TO REFORMED BAPTIST GAVIN ORTLUND

Reply to Gavin Ortlund’s “Sola Scriptura Defended” [4-27-22]

Augustine & Sola Scriptura (vs. Gavin Ortlund) (+ Part 2) [4-29-22]

Reply to Gavin Ortlund’s “Relics: A Protestant Critique” [5-12-22]

Reply to Gavin Ortlund on Purgatory (+ Part 2) [5-14-22]

Reply to Gavin Ortlund on Praying to the Saints (Including a Reply Regarding the (Blasphemous?) “Excesses of Marian Prayers” from the Protestant Point of View) [5-15-22]

Reply to Baptist Gavin Ortlund’s Critique of Icons [5-19-22]

Reply to Baptist Gavin Ortlund on Baptism [5-20-22]

St. Jerome, Papacy, & Succession (vs. Gavin Ortlund) [1-20-24]

Reply to a Gavin Ortlund Argument Against Infant Baptism [1-26-24]

Reply To Gavin Ortlund’s 6-Minute Sola Scriptura Defense (Including the Biblical Case for Prophets as Inspired and Infallible Authorities Besides Holy Scripture) [1-26-24]

Reply to Gavin Ortlund: St. Ignatius & Bishops (+ St. Polycarp and St. Clement of Rome On Early Church Ecclesiology) [2-1-24]

Dave Armstrong Responds to Gavin Ortlund on Jerome & the Monepiscopacy [30-minute audio presentation Suan Sonna’s YouTube channel, Intellectual Catholicism, on 2-4-24]

Jerome & Succession, Vs. Gavin Ortlund: Audio Transcript [2-5-24]
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Reply To Gavin Ortlund: Albigensian Crusade [2-6-24]

Reply To Gavin Ortlund: Catholic Inquisitions; Hus [2-7-24]

Catholicism & Non-Catholic Salvation (Vs. Gavin Ortlund) + How Early Protestants Widely Damned Other Protestants Who Held Different Theological Views [2-9-24]

Gavin Ortlund’s Sola Scriptura Proofs Prove Tradition: Including an In-Depth Analysis of the Term “Oracles of God” (Gk., Logion, Romans 3:2) [2-12-24]

Bible / Faith “Alone” Vs. The Fathers (Vs. Gavin Ortlund) [2-13-24]

Last Day: What Jesus Says To The Elect (Vs. Gavin Ortlund) + Bible Passages On the Organic Relationship of Faith, Works, Grace, Obedience, & Salvation [2-16-24]

Why Protestants Become Catholics (w Gavin Ortlund) [2-22-24]

My Deep Respect for Gavin Ortlund as a Protestant Apologist [2-22-24]

Deuterocanon: Reply To Protestant Apologist Gavin Ortlund [2-26-24]

Denominationalism & The Bible: Reply To Gavin Ortlund (+ Does the New Testament Present an Ecclesiology of “The Church”?) [2-27-24]

Biblical Arguments for the Papacy: Reply to Gavin Ortlund [Including Gavin’s Exceptionally Ecumenical & Irenic Statements About the Catholic Church & Catholics] [3-12-24]

Origen & Interceding Saints & Angels (vs. Gavin Ortlund) [3-13-24]

Papacy & OT Infallible Prophets Analogy (vs. Gavin Ortlund) [3-14-24]

Church Fathers & Images: No Evidence? (vs. Gavin Ortlund) [3-18-24]

Reply to Gavin Ortlund: Confession & Authority [4-11-24]
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The Scarcity of Serious, Constructive Theological Dialogue Today (Ortlund and Cooper) [Facebook, 4-17-24]

Immaculate Conception: Reply to Gavin Ortlund (Including Analysis of Catholic Anathemas in Dogmatic Statements / Development of Doctrine and Mary) [8-22-24]
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Mary’s Assumption: Reply to Gavin Ortlund (Its “Late” Development / Two 4th Century Witnesses / Protestant Commentators on Revelation 12 / Biblical Arguments) [8-23-24]

Gavin Ortlund Affirms That Many Protestants Are Anxious and Considering Conversion to Catholicism: So Much So That He Felt Led to Write a Book to Counter It [Facebook, 8-23-24]
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VIDEO: Icons: Gavin Ortlund’s 500-Year Absence Claim Refuted [see also the transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 8-9-25]

Vs. Ortlund: Widespread Image Veneration Before 500 AD (Contra Reformed Baptist Apologist Gavin Ortlund; Including the Opinions of Protestant Historians Philip Schaff and Jaroslav Pelikan; Similarity to the Veneration of Relics) [8-15-25]

VIDEO: Gavin Ortlund’s Claim DEBUNKED! No, Augustine WASN’T “Sola Scriptura“! [Lux Veritatis, with Kenny Burchard, 8-30-25]

VIDEO: Relics: Gavin Ortlund says NO, Bible Says YES! [see also the written transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 10-3-25]

VIDEO: Gavin Ortlund vs. Catholic Unity: Are Denominations Biblical? [see also the transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, 10-23-25]
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Joe Heschmeyer Claimed that Gavin Ortlund Partially Cited a Text of the Didache Improperly, but Not “On Purpose”; Gavin Responds That Joe Habitually Doesn’t Cite His Words or Those of Others “Accurately” [Facebook, 10-30-25]

Baptist Apologist Dr. Gavin Ortlund: Catholic Apologists Doing Much Better Than We Are, Online [Facebook, 12-29-25]

Gavin Ortlund, Hus’s Burning, & Double Standards (+ several highly uncomfortable points of fact for those who deny that early Protestantism massively executed those it deemed to be heretics: mostly fellow Protestants) [my 36th reply to Dr. Ortlund since April 2022] [12-30-25]
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A Few “Worst” & “Best” Arguments vs. Protestantism [8-21-26]
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On Protestant Explanations of Catholic Conversion [10-15-26]
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II. REPLIES TO STEVE HAYS

Series: Replies to [Steve] Hays’ “Biblical Calvinism”:

Reply #1: Preliminaries; God “Hardens” Hearts?; Few or Many Saved? [6-12-23]

Reply #2: Sin & God’s Providence; Does God Cause Infirmities & Send “Evil Spirits”?; Examples of God’s Immediate Judgment, Including Absalom; “A Lying Spirit” [6-13-23]

Reply #3: Does God “Micromanage” Every Intent?; God Judges Assyria; Israel Judged in Isaiah 6; Predestined Crucifixion; Acts 13:48: “Ordained to Eternal Life”; Catholic Church & God’s Providence [6-14-23]

Reply #4: Catholicism: The Elect Are Predestined; Reprobate in 1 Peter 2:8; God’s Providence (We Agree!); False Prophet as God’s “Tool”; Good Ol’ Romans 9 [6-15-23]

III. CALVINISM AND ST. AUGUSTINE

Early Protestants & St. Augustine: Ambiguity [1-28-04]

St. Augustine Was Catholic, Not Proto-Protestant! [9-25-10]

St. Augustine’s Eucharistic Doctrine and Protestant “Co-Opting” [9-25-10]

St. Augustine’s Eucharistic Doctrine: Simultaneous Assertion of Realism and Symbolism [2-17-11]

St. Augustine: Thoroughly Catholic: 135 Proofs [8-30-12]

St. Augustine, Calvin, and Calvinists Regarding Total Depravity [1-7-14]

IV. SACRAMENTS: ESPECIALLY BAPTISM AND THE EUCHARIST

Sacramentarian Controversies (Calvin vs. Luther vs. Zwingli) [3-29-04]

Eucharistic Real Presence: Luther’s Magnificent Defense [Over Against Zwingli] [6-21-04]

John Calvin’s Erroneous Mystical View of the Eucharist [4-9-04, rev. 9-7-05]
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Quiz on Early Protestant / “Reformation” Eucharistic Harmony [8-23-09]

St. Augustine Accepted All Seven Catholic Sacraments [9-25-10]

Salvation Through the Eucharist According to Francois Turretin (1623-1687) [Facebook, 2-23-25]

François Turretin and the Debate Over the Lord’s Supper [Vs. Turretin #11: Eucharist, Pt. 1] (Does a traditional literal reading of “this is my body” entail “a thousand absurdities and contradictions”? The book of Job is instructive) [2-24-25]

Reply to François Turretin #12: Transubstantiation, Pt. 1 (Does Turretin think biblically in this regard or hyper-rationally and skeptically?) [2-26-25]

Reply to François Turretin #13: Transubstantiation, Pt. 2 (Language of “bread” & “wine” after consecration; transubstantiation and transformation: compendium from the Church fathers) [2-27-25]

Reply to François Turretin #14: Eucharist, Pt. 2 (False premises; unfounded, unbiblical divine “impossibilities”; cessationism; ten types of physical divine presence) [2-28-25]

VIDEO: How Can That Be Jesus? (Turretin & the Eucharist): Calvinist Hyper-Rationalism vs. the Biblical Teaching of Twenty Kinds of God’s Presence [see the written transcript of the main presentation] [Catholic Bible Highlights, 5-23-25]

Dialogue on Reformed Eucharistic Theology [5-25-25]

VIDEO: Eucharist = Jesus? Protestant Doubts vs. Biblical Faith [see the transcript of the main presentation, minus additional discussion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, 5-29-25]

Zwingli’s Watered-Down Original Sin and Rejection of Baptismal Regeneration as its Antidote [6-24-25]

V. PREDESTINATION, SUPRALAPSARIANISM, SOVEREIGNTY, JUDGMENT, UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION

Catholic Teaching: Predestination of the Elect (Ludwig Ott) [1996]

Dialogue on God’s Middle Knowledge & Foreknowledge (vs. Dr. Alexander Pruss) [1997]
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Assurance of Instant Salvation? / Apostasy / Falling Away (Bible passages) [c. 2000]

John Calvin: Only God Knows Who is Numbered Among the Elect [1-5-06]

Dialogue on Molinism and on How God Predestines (+ Part II) [4-15-06 and 4-24-06]

Predestination & the Ingenious “Solution” of Fr. Most [4-22-06]

Dialogue: Molinism & How God Predestines (Pt. III) (+ Pt. IV) [5-2-06 and 5-14-06]
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Do Catholics Believe in Predestination? Yes! But . . . [8-29-06]

Reply to a Calvinist: Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart (vs. Colin Smith) [10-14-06]

Catholic Predestination, Molinism, & Thomism in a Nutshell [3-27-08]

Luther: God Predestines Reprobation of the Damned [2-27-10]

Dialogue: Double Predestination, Total Depravity, & Limited Atonement [4-14-10]

Bible vs. Double Predestination (No Reprobate Parallels) [4-22-10]

Romans 9: Plausible Non-Calvinist Interpretation [4-22-10]

Is God the Author of Evil? (vs. John Calvin) [Oct. 2012]

Reply to James White’s Exegesis of James 2 in Chapter 20 of His Book, The God Who Justifies [10-9-13]

God “Hardening Hearts”: How Do We Interpret That? [12-18-08; expanded on 1-4-17]

Does God “Want” Men to Sin? Does He “Ordain” Sin? [2-17-10 and 3-16-17]

Luther (Unlike Lutheranism) Taught Double Predestination [1-11-18]

Atheist Ignorance of Christianity: Typical Example (Calvinists make up only some 5% of all Christians, so why do atheists so often think that Calvinist double predestination is the only accepted view in Christian theology?) [12-12-20]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #1: “Hardening Hearts” [10-23-21]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #2: Eli’s Sons (1 Sam 2:25) [10-25-21]

The Lord “Bringing Evil” Means Righteous Judgment [10-25-21]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #3: Absalom’s Judgment [10-27-21]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #4: Judgment of Assyria [10-27-21]

Romans 9: Unanswerable Calvinist Prooftext? [12-28-25]

VIDEO: Allie Beth Stuckey on Predestination to Hell: Biblical Catholic Takedown [see also the transcript of the initial presentation] [with Kenny Burchard, Catholic Bible Highlights, 1-23-26]

Renowned Calvinists On Unconditional Reprobation (Calvin, Beza, Turretin, Charles Hodge, Shedd, Warfield, Bavinck, Berkhof, Sproul, Grudem, Beeke, Horton) [1-25-26]

Calvinist unconditional reprobation from all eternity without any consideration whatsoever of a person’s sins: in a nutshell [Facebook, 1-26-26]

Unconditional Reprobation: Calvinist Biblical Prooftexts [1-26-26]

VI. “TULIP”: TOTAL DEPRAVITY / LIMITED ATONEMENT / IRRESISTIBLE GRACE / PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS

Luther and the Origin & Nature of “Instant” Salvation [1991]

Calvinist Total Depravity vs. Catholic Concupiscence [1996]

Assurance of Instant Salvation? / Apostasy / Falling Away (Bible passages) [c. 2000]

“Certainty” of Eternal Life? (1 John 5:13 and John 5:24) [5-8-02]

Total Depravity: Reply to James White: Calvinism and Romans 3:10-11 (“None is Righteous . . . No One Seeks For God”) [4-15-07]

Calvinist Total Depravity: Does Romans 1 Apply to All Men? [4-10-08]

2nd Council of Orange: Sola Gratia vs. Total Depravity [1-5-09]

Dialogue with a Calvinist Regarding Falling Away from Grace or Salvation [7-28-09]

Books by Dave Armstrong: Biblical Catholic Answers for John Calvin [3-11-10]

Gospel = Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace? [4-6-10]

Dialogue: Double Predestination, Total Depravity, & Limited Atonement [4-14-10]

Bible vs. the Reformed Doctrine of Total Depravity [October 2010]

Bible vs. the Reformed Doctrine of Limited Atonement [October 2010]

Calvinist Irresistible Grace vs. the Bible [October 2010]

Calvinist Dialogues with Ghost of Plato [10-31-11]

Should We Pray for “All Men” (1 Tim 2:1) or Not? (Bible and Calvin Say Yes; Anti-Catholic Calvinist Ron Van Brenk Sez No) [11-16-11]

St. Francis de Sales: Bible vs. Total Depravity [11-24-11]

A Biblical Critique of Calvinism (Dave Armstrong): Introduction [10-1-12]

Total Depravity and the Evil of the Non-Elect (vs. John Calvin) [10-12-12]

Refutation of Calvinist Total Depravity [10-12-12]

Can Only Regenerate Men Perform Truly Good Works? (vs. John Calvin) [Oct. 2012]

Books by Dave Armstrong: A Biblical Critique of Calvinism [10-23-12]

Calvinist Irresistible Grace: Biblical? [2013]

Exchange on My Humorous Meme About Calvinism (vs. Dr. Glenn Peoples and William Tanksley, Jr.) / How Satirical Humor Works [1-6-14]

St. Augustine, Calvin, and Calvinists Regarding Total Depravity [1-7-14]

Limited Atonement, Free Will, & Failed Prayers of Jesus [7-18-14]

Salvation, Eternal Security, & Grace: Dialogue w Bethany Kerr [4-13-15]

Limited Atonement Refuted? (John 12:32) [10-19-15]

Reply to a Calvinist on Faith Alone and Works [of God Only?] [4-4-17]

Total Depravity and Salvation Outside the Church (vs. a Calvinist) [4-4-17]

Is God Alone Holy, According to Scripture? Or Can We Be Too? [5-3-17]

Purgatory: Exchange with a Presbyterian (Calvinist) [5-11-17]

Dialogue: Does the Bible Teach Limited Atonement? [2-23-19]
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Calvinist Hems and Haws with Regard to Answering My Biblical Refutation of Limited Atonement, Then Flatly Refuses [Facebook, 2-26-19]

Calvinist Origin of Luther’s (?) “Snow-Covered Dunghill”? [5-14-19]

Vs. James White #4: Eternal Security of Believers? [9-19-19]

Vs. James White #7: My Refutations of Calvinism & His Non-Replies [11-12-19]

Good Works and Men, God’s Grace, and Regeneration [National Catholic Register, 8-6-20]

The Bible is Clear: ‘Eternal Security’ is a Manmade Doctrine [National Catholic Register, 8-17-20]

Eternal Security vs. the Bible [National Catholic Register, 8-23-20]

There Never Will Be a Single Human Being for Whom Christ Did Not Suffer [National Catholic Register, 4-28-21]

Perseverance of the Saints: Reply to a Calvinist [5-17-21]

Westminster vs. Bible #1: Assurance of Salvation [5-19-21]

Limited Atonement: Refutation of James White [9-1-21]

Jesus vs. James White on Who Can be Saved [10-12-21]

Biblical Reasons Why Catholics Don’t Believe in ‘Limited Atonement’ [National Catholic Register, 10-27-21]

More Biblical Reasons Why Catholics Don’t Believe in ‘Limited Atonement’ [National Catholic Register, 10-30-21]

Limited Atonement Biblical Arguments Refuted (33 NT Passages Against Limited Atonement and in Favor of Universal Atonement) [11-21-24]

VIDEO: “Once Saved Always Saved” REFUTED! – [20+verses] [with Kenny Burchard at Catholic Bible Highlights, 11-22-24]

VIDEO: Total Depravity Debunked by the Bible [see also the transcript of the initial presentation] [with Kenny Burchard at Catholic Bible Highlights, 1-21-26]

Reply to a Calvinist Defender of Total Depravity [related to the video immediately above] [1-23-26]

Unregenerate Good Works in the Old Testament . . . Over Against the Calvinist Notion of Total Depravity [2-2-26]

John Calvin & Calvinists on Forensic Justification [4-28-26]

VII. REPLIES TO FRANCOIS TURRETIN (1623-1687)

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Turretin Lied About the Catholic View of Scripture [8-24-22]

Turretin, 1 Timothy 3:15, Infallibility, & Eisegesis [8-24-22]

Self-Interpreting Bible & Protestant Chaos (vs. Turretin) (Including Documentation that St. Basil the Great — Contrary to Turretin’s Claim — Did Not Believe in Sola Scriptura) [8-29-22]

Christ’s Descent Into Hades (vs. Francois Turretin) (Biblical and Patristic Support Examined) [9-1-22]

Francis Turretin: the 2nd Greatest Calvinist Theologian After John Calvin, Endorses “Mother of God” Terminology [Facebook, 3-10-23]

Francis Turretin: the 2nd Greatest Calvinist Theologian After John Calvin, Believed in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary [Facebook, 3-10-23]

Vs. Turretin #1: Communion Of Saints 1 (Preliminaries) [12-21-23]

Vs. Turretin #2: Communion Of Saints 2 (Veneration) [12-22-23]

Vs. Turretin #3: Communion Of Saints 3 (Intercession) [12-23-23]

Vs. Turretin #4: Communion Of Saints 4 (Invocation) [12-26-23]

Vs. Turretin #5: Communion Of Saints 5 (Relics) [12-27-23]

Vs. Turretin #6: Communion Of Saints 6 (Images) [12-27-23]

Vs. Turretin #7: Intercession & Veneration Of Angels [12-29-23]

Vs. Turretin #8: Church #1 (Infallibility 1) [1-4-24]

Vs. Turretin #9: Church #2 (Indefectibility) [1-9-24]

Vs. Turretin #10: Sanctification [5-7-24]

Salvation Through the Eucharist According to Francois Turretin (1623-1687) [Facebook, 2-23-25]

Reply to François Turretin #12: Transubstantiation, Pt. 1 (Does Turretin think biblically in this regard or hyper-rationally and skeptically?) [2-26-25]

Reply to François Turretin #14: Eucharist, Pt. 2 (False premises; unfounded, unbiblical divine “impossibilities”; cessationism; ten types of physical divine presence) [2-28-25]

VIDEO: Eucharist = Jesus? Protestant Doubts vs. Biblical Faith [see the transcript of the main presentation, minus additional discussion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, 5-29-25]

VIDEO: The Real Presence: Why Protestant Arguments Keep Failing [vs. Turretin] [see also the complete transcript, including dialogue] [Catholic Bible Highlights with Kenny Burchard, 2-5-26]

VIDEO: Miraculous Eucharist (vs. Francois Turretin #4) [see also the initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights with Kenny Burchard, 4-24-26]

VIII. ZWINGLI AND OTHER CALVINISTIC “REFORMERS” / MARIOLOGY IN PARTICULAR

Perpetual Virginity of Mary: Held by All Protestant Reformers [1-27-02]

Luther’s Mariology: Have Catholic Apologists Exaggerated It? (And Has Present-Day Protestantism Maintained the Classical “Reformation” Protestant Mariology?) [4-26-03; rev. 7-15-20]

Protestant “Reformer” Zwingli Denied Original Sin [5-27-06]

“Moderate” Heinrich Bullinger: “Reformation” Anti-Catholicism [1-16-07]

Zwingli: Protestant “Reformer”, Fornicator, & Vow-Breaker [12-20-07]

Zwingli, Bucer, Oecolampadius: Luther & Lutherans Not Christians [1-10-08]

Mary’s Assumption & “Reformer” Heinrich Bullinger [4-6-08]

Mary Mother of God: Protestant Founders Agree (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger) [10-10-08]

Protestant “Reformer” Martin Bucer: Death for Adulterers! [9-18-09]

Turretin & Bullinger Accepted Mary’s Perpetual Virginity [1-5-10 and 6-1-10]

Zwingli’s Belief in Mary’s Sinlessness [9-30-10]

Mariology of “Reformers” Zwingli & Bullinger [4-28-16]

Zwingli vs. Scripture: Worshiping God Through an Image [6-22-25]

Zwingli vs. John the Baptist & Baptism Re Salvation [6-23-25]

Zwingli’s Watered-Down Original Sin and Rejection of Baptismal Regeneration as its Antidote [6-24-25]

Zwingli Believed in Mary’s Perpetual Virginity [Facebook, 6-24-25]

Zwingli’s Anti-Biblical Silliness Regarding Absolution of Sins [Facebook, 6-24-25]

Intercession of the Saints: Zwingli vs. Scripture (Are We Never to Seek Intercessory Aid from Departed Saints or Even from Righteous People on the Earth?) [6-26-25]

Zwingli’s Blindness Regarding Biblical Merit / The Ten Clearest Biblical Passages on Merit [Facebook, 6-26-25]

Zwingli’s Childish Trashing of the Character of Catholic Theologian and Apologist Johann Eck [Facebook, 6-26-25]

IX. ECUMENISM

My Respect for Protestants / Catholic Ecumenical Principles [2001; addendum: 1-8-03]

The Real Diet of Augsburg (1530) vs. the Protestant Myth [3-3-04]

Regensburg (1541) & Poissy (1561): Protestant “Ecumenism”? [4-27-04]

Zwingli, Bucer, Oecolampadius: Luther & Lutherans Not Christians [1-10-08]

John Calvin: Authoritative Council Needed to Unite Protestants [1-18-08]

What I Like About Calvinism and Calvinists [June 2009]

John Calvin Rebukes Lutheran “Beasts” and “Evil”, Calls Luther an Idolater [Facebook, 3-23-10]

Total Depravity and Salvation Outside the Church (vs. a Calvinist) [4-4-17]

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X. ICONOCLASM AND INTOLERANCE
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Early Protestant Antipathy Towards Art (+ Iconoclasm) [1991]

Protestant Inquisitions: “Reformation” Intolerance & Persecution [June 1991; rev. 10-31-03, 3-7-07, 9-14-17]

John Calvin, Early Calvinism, & Violent Iconoclasm [7-4-04]

Dialogue w Lutheran Historian on 16th-Century Intolerance [2-15-06]

16th Century Theft of Church Properties (vs. Lutheran Historian) [2-22-06]

16th c. Calvinists vs. Lutherans: Who Suppressed Catholics [3-21-07]

Zwingli, Bucer, Oecolampadius: Luther & Lutherans Not Christians [1-10-08]

“Reformation” Theft of Thousands of Catholic Churches [4-12-08]

Unbridled Sectarianism, Sola Scriptura, Luther, & Calvin [6-24-09]

Protestant “Reformer” Martin Bucer: Death for Adulterers! [9-18-09]

Calvin, Zwingli, & Bullinger vs. Statues of Christ, Crucifixes, & Crosses [9-19-09]

John Calvin Rebukes Lutheran “Beasts” and “Evil”, Calls Luther an Idolater [Facebook, 3-23-10]
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Christmas Trees as Idols?: Silly “Biblical” “Arguments” [12-12-10]

“Graven Images”: Unbiblical Iconoclasm (vs. John Calvin) [Oct. 2012]

Dialogue on Jihadist and 16th Century Calvinist Iconoclasm (vs. David Scott) [9-27-13]

Is it Wrong to Celebrate and “Make Merry” About the Birth of Jesus and God Becoming Man? No! Clear Biblical Models [Facebook, 12-15-20]

Christmas: Theological (Reformed / Calvinist) Opposition . . . With My Biblical and Historical Refutations [12-16-20]

Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) on the Execution of Heretics [Facebook, 6-11-25]

Calvin’s Successor Theodore Beza & Execution of Heretics [6-16-25]
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VIDEO: Icons: Gavin Ortlund’s 500-Year Absence Claim Refuted [see also the written transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, 8-9-25]

XI. APOLOGETIC METHOD (PRESUPPOSITIONALISM)

Critique of Van Til’s Presuppositionalism [10-23-04]

Critique of Presuppositionalism & Greg Bahnsen [4-14-07]

Dialogue on Presuppositionalism with a Baptist [6-10-07]

XII. GENERAL / MISCELLANEOUS

Calvinism: Tiny Minority Historically & Demographically [2-10-22]

Protestant Confessions & “Ever-Virgin” Mary [9-6-26]

PROTESTANTISM (General)

XIII. THE PROTESTANT WORLDVIEW AND THE SO-CALLED “PROTESTANT REFORMATION” SCRUTINIZED

Protestant Revolt Was Largely Politically Motivated [6-11-91]

The Dichotomous Nature of Protestant Thought [Facebook, 6-20-91]
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Protestantism as the Root Cause of Secularization [Facebook, 6-20-91]
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Protestantism: Compromising & Liberalizing Tendency [6-20-91]
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Pragmatism: Protestant Self-Critique Number One [6-20-91]
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Worldliness & Compromise: Protestant Self-Critique #2 [6-20-91]

Materialism & Narcissism: Protestant Self-Critique #3 [6-20-91]
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Catholicism is the Ultimate Fulfillment of Protestantism (Bouyer and Chesterton) [Facebook, 6-20-91]
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Astonishing Hostility to Higher Education in Early Protestantism [1991]

Why I Returned to the Catholic Church; Including a Searching Examination of Various Flaws and Errors in the Protestant Worldview and Approach to Christian Living (Al Kresta) [transcript of his talk in my home, 4-26-92]

Protestantism is Too Man-Centered (Extreme Over-Emphasis on the Pastor) [Facebook, 1997]

My Respect for Protestants / Catholic Ecumenical Principles [2001; addendum: 1-8-03]

Catholic Critique of Anglicanism and the Via Media [11-12-01]

Books by Dave Armstrong: Protestantism: Critical Reflections of an Ecumenical Catholic [May 2003]

Protestantism Was Not a Revolt? [6-2-03]

Clerical Celibacy: Hostile Protestant Commentary & Catholic Replies [2-21-04]

The Revised Fundamentalist Baptist Version (RFBV) [5-18-04]

Early Protestant Hostility Towards Science [7-9-04]

Word “Protestant” Stemmed from Intolerance of Catholic Worship [2-8-06]

Why Write “Bad” Stuff About Protestant “Reformers”? [5-22-06]

James White Deacons-Elders-Bishops Controversy (Original title: “Dumbbells and Deacons: Does No Protestant Denomination Whatsoever Regard Deacons as the Equivalent of Pastors and Elders — or Even Bishops?) [6-16-07]

Catholic “Both/And” vs. Protestant “Either/Or” Dichotomies [2-4-08]

George Washington’s Religious Views [5-23-08]

Erasmus vs. Luther Disputes Documented [Feb. 2009]

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon Wax Astronomical and Geocentric, Oppose Copernicus [2-5-09]

Calling of St. Paul & Church Authority: Dialogue w Calvinist [10-24-11]

Books by Dave Armstrong: The Quotable Wesley [5-2-12]

Dialogue on the Term, “Protestant Reformation” and Proposed Alternatives Like “Era of Reformations” and “Protestant Revolt” (vs. Anglican historian Dr. Edwin W. Tait) [1-7-14]

Protestant & Catholic Holiness, Miracles, & Reform [9-23-14]

Comments on the Question: “Are Protestants Heretics?” [vigorous Facebook discussion on this topic and about anti-trinitarianism, 10-10-14]

“Who Cares About Early Protestant Mariology?” [10-16-14]

Broad Exchange with a Former Catholic, Bible-Only Protestant (vs. John Hallman) [4-13-15]

“Why Convince Protestants to Become Catholics?” [4-30-15]

Debunking the Mythical Invisible Church [9-14-15]

Arbitrary Bias in the NIV Against “Tradition” [9-18-15]

“Armstrong vs. Geisler” (Series of Ten Mini-Debates) [Facebook, 3-2-17]

Why Do Atheists Almost Always Prefer Protestantism to Catholicism? [Facebook, 10-25-17]

Critique of Ten Exaggerated Claims of the “Reformation” [10-31-17; its 500th anniversary date]

Why Not Become a Protestant, Due to the Sex Scandals? [3-7-19]

Reply to “Why Remain Protestant?” (Steven Nemes) [4-22-22]

Reply to a “Reformation Day” Lutheran Sermon [Vs. Nathan Rinne] (Including St. Augustine’s View on the Rule of Faith & the Perspicuity of Scripture; Luther & Lutherans’ Belief in Falling Away) [10-31-23]

Sola Fide (Faith Alone) Nonexistent Before the Protestant Revolt in 1517 (Geisler & McGrath) [Catholic365, 10-31-23]

Reply to Gavin Ortlund: Cameron Bertuzzi’s Conversion, Pt. I (Sacramental Confession, Christian Authority, & Protestant Private Judgment) [4-11-24]

Various Protestant Errors (vs. Steve Gregg) [8-14-24]
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Reply to a Protestant: Misc. Protestant Errors (Includes Biblical Arguments for the Catholic Priesthood) [8-17-24]
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VIDEO: The Three Most “Un-Protestant” NT Passages [see the initial transcript ] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 10-9-25]
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VIDEO: Top 5 Un-Protestant Bible Verses [w Suan Sonna, on his channel, Intellectual Catholicism, 11-26-25]

Defense of my “Top 5 Un-Protestant Bible Verses” [re: the video directly above] [11-30-25]
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“Reformation” Debate (vs. Lutheran Nathan Rinne): Featuring Massively Unbiblical “Faith Alone” & St. Augustine’s Opposition to Imputed Justification: Just One Part of His Thoroughly Catholic Soteriology [+ Part 2] [4-17-26]

If the Two Protestant “Pillars of the Reformation” (Sola Scriptura & Sola Fide) Collapse — and They Do Under Biblical Scrutiny –, Then Protestantism Goes Down with Them [Facebook, 4-19-26]
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VIDEO: Why Wes Huff (and Everyone) Should Be Catholic [+ the initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 6-5-26]

Exchange with a “Me, My Bible, & the Holy Spirit” Type of Protestant Who Unbiblically Pits Those Things Against the Church & “Rituals” [Facebook, 6-6-26]

Why are so many Protestants filled with such energetic zeal to prove that Catholicism is wrong? [Facebook, 7-18-26]

A Few “Worst” & “Best” Arguments vs. Protestantism [8-21-26]

XIV. THE PROTESTANT “QUEST FOR UNCERTAINTY” / THE SO-CALLED CATHOLIC “PROBLEM” OF THE “INFALLIBILITY REGRESS”

Dialogue on the Logic of Catholic Infallible Authority [6-4-96]

Church Authority & Certainty (The “Infallibility Regress”) [July 2000; some revisions on 12-8-11]

The Protestant “Non-Quest” for Certainty [3-15-06; abridged and links added on 7-12-20]

Ecclesiological Certainty (?) & the “Infallibility Regress” [5-22-03 and 10-7-08]

Glorying in Uncertainty in Modern Protestantism (Dialogue with a Calvinist) [11-11-09]

Does Church Infallibility Require Infallible Catholics? [6-8-10]

Radically Unbiblical Protestant “Quest for Uncertainty” [2-12-14]

On Protestant Explanations of Catholic Conversion [10-15-26]

XV. PROTESTANTISM: LOGICALLY SELF-DEFEATING / REDUCTION TO SELF-CONTRADICTION

Protestantism: Is it Logically Self-Defeating? [9-15-03]

Sola Scriptura is Self-Defeating and False if Not in the Bible (vs. Kevin Johnson) [5-4-04]

Difficulties of Authority: Luther, Calvin, & Protestantism [4-11-04]

Protestant Principles of Authority are Self-Defeating [9-25-08]

Nutshell Summary of How Sola Scriptura is Self-Defeating [Facebook, 8-21-26]

XVI. DENOMINATIONALISM AND SECTARIANISM

Denominationalism and Sectarianism: An Anti-Biblical Scandal [1996]

Reply to Two Confessions: On the Church & Private Judgment (Reformed Belgic Confession [1561] and Second Helvetic Confession [1566]) [June 2002]

Sacramentarian Controversies (Calvin vs. Luther vs. Zwingli) [3-29-04]

33,000 Protestant Denominations? No! [9-4-04]

“Absurd” Protestant Divisions: Calvin’s Revealing Lament to Melanchthon [2-6-06]

Philip Melanchthon’s Agony Over Protestant Sectarianism [2-8-06]

Bible vs. Denominationalism and Against “Primary / Secondary” Doctrines [8-18-06]

Melanchthon in 1530 Longed for Return of Catholic Bishops [11-30-07]

John Calvin: Authoritative Council Needed to Unite Protestants [1-18-08]

Unbridled Sectarianism, Sola Scriptura, Luther, & Calvin [6-24-09]

Short Dialogue with a Presbyterian and a Baptist on the Definition of “Fundamentalist” [Facebook, 1-7-10]

John Calvin Rebukes Lutheran “Beasts” and “Evil”, Calls Luther an Idolater [Facebook, 3-23-10]

Melanchthon’s Agonized Tears Over Early Protestant Divisions [6-15-11; additions on 10-11-17]

Bible on Submission to Church & Apostolic Tradition / Biblical Condemnation of the Rebellious & Schismatic Aspects of the Protestant Revolt [8-27-11]

Early Protestant “Unity”: Calvin vs. Westphal vs. Luther [11-6-11]

Bishop Bossuet on the Schismatic Nature and Internal Difficulties of Protestantism [Facebook, 1-4-12]

33,000 [?] Denominations & “Thankful” James White [2-20-16]

Church Authority vs. Rampant Sectarianism [9-22-16]

Orthodoxy and Heresy: Biblical Notions? [9-23-16]

“Reply to Calvin” #4: “Primary” & “Secondary” Doctrines [4-3-17]

Catholicism is True and Denominationalism is Anti-Biblical [National Catholic Register, 6-27-17]

Sectarianism & Denominationalism: Reply to Calvin #6 [12-19-18]

Does Sola Scriptura Create Chaos? (vs. Steve Hays) [5-15-20]

Unbiblical Denominations (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [6-9-22]

Jason Engwer’s Anti-Papalism Refutes Denominationalism [8-2-22]

Has Lutheranism Avoided Denominationalism? (Widespread Lutheran Compromise & Caving on Abortion & Same-Sex “Marriage”) [8-10-22]

Martin Luther vs. Sectarianism and Fanaticism [10-26-22]

How Steve Hays Squared Jesus’ Prayer for Unity in John 17 with Denominationalism [Facebook, 6-2-23]

“Catholic Verses” #5: Denominationalism (Including “Straight Talk” on the Catholic and Protestant Inquisitions) [10-27-23]

Catholicism & Non-Catholic Salvation (Vs. Gavin Ortlund) + How Early Protestants Widely Damned Other Protestants Who Held Different Theological Views [2-9-24]

Early Protestant Idyllic Unity & Catholicity (1525-1563): One Big Happy and Tolerant Family [Facebook, 2-10-24]

Denominationalism & The Bible: Reply To Gavin Ortlund (+ Does the New Testament Present an Ecclesiology of “The Church”?) [2-27-24]

“Ecclesialism” vs. Sola Scriptura (vs. “The Other Paul”) [3-25-24]

Calvin & Cranmer: Councils Necessary For Doctrinal Unity [5-8-24]

Luther: “As Many Sects And Creeds As Heads” (James Swan Misses the Forest for the Trees / Calvin & Melanchthon Embarrassed & Scandalized by Protestant Sectarianism) [6-17-24]

Martin Luther Classified Zwingli, Karlstadt, & Oecolampadius as “Heathen” Non-Christians with “hyper-bedeviled heart[s]” etc. [Facebook, 7-11-24]

Reply to Lucas Banzoli’s 30 “Common” (?) Protestant Views [4-24-25]

VIDEO: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation: Shocking Divisions Revealed! [+ the transcript] [Lux Veritatis, 5-4-25]

VIDEO: Gavin Ortlund vs. Catholic Unity: Are Denominations Biblical? [Catholic Bible Highlights, 10-23-25]

Early Protestant Leaders Damning Each Other: 40 Examples [12-17-25]

VIDEO Short: Top Ten: Protestant Reformers Damning Each Other [Catholic Bible Highlights, 12-19-25]

Reply to Lutheran Javier Perdomo Regarding Perspicuity & Denominationalism [Facebook, 6-21-26]

Reply to Anglican Sean Luke on Denominationalism: The Continuing Patently Unbiblical Ludicrosity of all Denominationalism [7-22-26]

On Protestant Explanations of Catholic Conversion [10-15-26]

XVII. CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS

TV Interview: On Catholicism, Over Against Protestantism (Transcript) (also, listen to the audio; see #5) [5-1-99]

My Respect for Protestants / Catholic Ecumenical Principles [2001; addendum: 1-8-03]

Word “Protestant” Stemmed from Intolerance of Catholic Worship [2-8-06]

The Catholic “Both/And” vs. the Protestant “Either/Or” Dichotomous Mindset [2-4-08]

On the Definition of “Evangelical” [3-20-08]

Are All Protestants “Saved”? (“TurretinFan” Insanity) [8-4-09; abridged with new intro. on 7-25-25]

Dialogue: Definition of “Christian” (vs. Reformed Pastor) (+ Did Trent Anathematize all Protestants?) [6-5-10]

Reply to Robin Phillips’ Why I’m Not a Catholic [1-31-12]

Michael Voris’ Anti-Protestant Rhetoric [8-8-13]

Should Catholics Try to Persuade Protestants? [5-25-16]

“Armstrong vs. Geisler” (Series of Ten Mini-Debates) [Facebook, 3-2-17]

Critique of Ten Exaggerated Claims of the “Reformation” [10-31-17; its 500th anniversary date]

Response to All-Over-the-Ballpark Criticisms of my National Catholic Register Article, “Here’s Proof That Not Every Protestant Doctrine is Biblical” [Facebook, 3-9-18]

Why Not Become a Protestant, Due to the Sex Scandals? [3-7-19]

Series of Replies to Theologian and Apologist Norman Geisler

#1: “Apocrypha” 1: Propheticity [7-3-25]

#2: “Apocrypha” 2: NT Citations (Including Related Discussion on Confused, Baffled Protestant Exegesis of Matthew 2:23: “He shall be called a Nazarene”) [7-7-25]

#3: “Apocrypha” 3: Septuagint [7-7-25]

#4: “Apocrypha” 4: Early Church [7-8-25]

#5: “Apocrypha” 5: Fathers (Also Including Analysis of Josephus’ and Philo’s Views, Jewish Scholars at Jamnia [c. AD 90], and the Qumran Community) [7-9-25]

#6: Sola Scriptura 1 (Including Inscripturation; 2 Timothy 3:16; Is Only the Bible Inspired?; Oral Torah) [7-11-25]

#7: Sola Scriptura 2 (Fathers) [7-15-25]

#8: Papal Infallibility (Includes Anti-Infallibilist George Salmon; “Vicar of Christ”; “Holy Father”; “Supreme Pontiff”; Is Galileo a Catholic Difficulty?) [7-16-25]

#9: “Faith Alone” 1 (Including Luther’s Qualified “Faith Alone”; Catholic Soteriology Accurately Presented; Meritorious Works; Bible vs. “Faith Alone”) [7-17-25]

#10: “Faith Alone” 2 (Including Sacraments, Grace, & Salvation; Protestants & Salvation Through Baptism & the Eucharist) [7-18-25]

#11: Seven Sacraments [7-19-25]

#12: Baptismal Regeneration (Including: Did Paul Refuse to Baptize Because it Was Contrary to the Gospel?; Meaning of Baptism in Acts 2) [7-21-25]

#13: Church & Ecclesiology (Including Authority in the Church; Paul the “Lone Ranger”?; Apostolic Succession: Five Biblical Proofs) [7-22-25]

#14: Mary’s Perpetual Virginity (Including Protestant Reformers & Aquinas On In Partu Virginity; Biblical Data on Jesus’ “Brothers”) [7-23-25]

#15: Immaculate Conception (Including: Early Protestant Proponents; The Surprisingly Multi-Faceted Biblical Case) [7-24-25]

#16: Mary’s Assumption (Including: Espousal by Earliest Protestants; Scriptural Arguments; St. John Henry Cardinal Newman’s Reflections) [7-24-25]

#17: Mary Mediatrix [7-25-25]

XVIII. ANGLICANISM

Replies to Anglican E. B. Pusey

#1: Agreement on Ecumenism and Various Doctrines; Sola Scriptura [1-20-25]

#2: Mary’s Intercession Analogous to “The prayer of a righteous man has great power in its effects” (James 5:16) [1-23-25]

#3: Admirable Ecumenical Sentiments; Mary as Our “Hope” & “Refuge” & “Comfort”; Must We Always Know of Mary’s Co-Mediation? [1-26-25]

#4: Infallible Ecumenical Councils; Nature of Saints’ Intercession [1-29-25]

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Apostolic Tradition: 28 Passages in Paul’s Epistles (Including Incisive Commentary from the Anglican Tractarian John Keble: 1792-1866) [1-29-25]

VIDEO: Why Can’t Women Be Priests in the Catholic Church? [see also the transcript of the initial presentation] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 10-6-25]

XIX. JOHN WESLEY

John Wesley (Founder of Methodism), Denied “Faith Alone”? [10-20-05]

John Wesley’s Belief in an Intermediate State After Death [7-13-09]

John Wesley Believed in Prayer for the Dead [7-13-09]

Books by Dave Armstrong: The Quotable Wesley [many quotations from the book linked on this page] [2014]

John Wesley’s View of Purgatory and Analogous Processes (A Classic Case Study of Inadvertent Approximation of the Very Catholic Teaching He Ostensibly Opposes) [5-20-17]

John Wesley vs. Extrinsic Justification & “Faith Alone” [4-29-26]

XX. C. S. LEWIS

C. S. Lewis: 20th-Century Christian Knight (Links Page) [archived versions of my now-defunct old reference web page (1997-2016) that contained over 500 links at its height and was sometimes cited by Christianity Today, etc.]

Bibliography of Books and Articles By or About C. S. Lewis [1997]

My “Romantic / Imaginative” Conversion to Christianity (“Romanticism, Wagner, C. S. Lewis, Christianity, and Me”) [1997; slightly revised on 19 September 2003 and slightly edited and expanded on 23 September 2015]

C. S. Lewis: Photograph and Reminiscences Page [12-20-99; updated on 11-20-06 and 6-16-11]

On Sehnsucht & Longing (C. S. Lewis & the Romantics) [11-13-01]

C. S. Lewis’ Views on Christian Unity & Ecumenism [6-16-03]

A Collection of C. S. Lewis Quotations [5-27-04]

Myth-as-Truth, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Conversion of C.S. Lewis [8-23-04]

Dialogue on C. S. Lewis’ “Trilemma” (Jesus’ Claims) [Nov. 2006]

Philip Pullman (of The Golden Compass Fame) Takes on God, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, and J.R.R. Tolkien [12-29-07]

C. S. Lewis’ Childhood in Belfast & Contra-Catholicism (Biographers and/or Friends Kreeft, Pearce, Derrick, and Possibly Tolkien Think This is Why Lewis Never Became a Catholic) [6-26-12]

Why Didn’t C. S. Lewis Become a Catholic? [8-29-14]

Dialogue on Why C. S. Lewis Didn’t “Pope” (Become a Catholic) [9-1-15]

C. S. Lewis vs. St. Paul on Future Binding Church Authority [National Catholic Register, 1-22-17]

Why C. S. Lewis Never Became a Catholic [National Catholic Register, 3-5-17]

C. S. Lewis on Inevitable Development of Doctrine [2-17-19]

Contraception: Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, & Teddy Roosevelt [7-29-19]

C. S. Lewis’ Belfast Childhood and Contra-Catholicism [9-12-19]

C. S. Lewis on Catholicism (Correspondence: 1934-1947) [9-13-19]

C. S. Lewis Roundly Mocked the Documentary Hypothesis [10-7-19]

C. S. Lewis & Low-Key, Gentle, Subtle Evangelism [10-17-19]

C. S. Lewis: A Life of Extraordinary Charity & Selflessness [10-21-19]

C. S. Lewis: Either Hated or Loved by Readers / Hearers [10-21-19]

C. S. Lewis: Criticism of Theological & Political Liberalism [10-22-19]

C. S. Lewis: Aversion to Crass “Christmas” Commercialism [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis: Views on Procreation & Contraception [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis Believed in Vicarious, Redemptive Suffering [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis Believed in the Sacrament of Confirmation [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis & the Invocation & Communion of Saints [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis Believed in Purgatory & Prayer for the Dead [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis Practiced Confession to an Anglican Priest [11-1-19]

C. S. Lewis on Ubiquitous Media Bias & Incompetence (. . . Some Things Never Change . . .) [11-27-19]

More Proof That ‘Heresy Begins Below the Belt’ (Even for Young C. S. Lewis) [National Catholic Register, 8-30-20]

C. S. Lewis May Have Accepted the Catholic Belief in Annulments [Facebook, 9-1-20]

C. S. Lewis Left Christianity Due to Masturbation? (Case Study of the Saying, “Heresy Begins Below the Belt”) [11-20-21]

Masturbation: C. S. Lewis Explains Why it is Wrong [11-20-21]

C. S. Lewis vs. the Bible & Newman Re “Religion” [8-19-22]

VIDEO: C. S. Lewis On Why He Never Became a Catholic [+ transcript] [Lux Veritatis, 7 minutes, 5-12-25]

VIDEO: 15 “Roman Catholic” Views of C. S. Lewis [see also the written transcript] [with Kenny Burchard, Lux Veritatis, 5-20-25]

C. S. Lewis: 50 Gems of Wisdom from His Letters [5-30-25]

VIDEO: The Friendship that SAVED The Lord of the Rings!! – C. S. Lewis & Tolkien [see also the written transcript of the main presentation] [with Kenny Burchard, Lux Veritatis, 8-24-25]

C. S. Lewis: More Evidences of Anti-Catholic Prejudice [12-3-25]

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