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February 2024

February 05, 2024

Jerome & Succession, vs. Gavin Ortlund: Audio Transcript

Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist author, speaker, pastor, and apologist for the Christian faith. He...

February 02, 2024

Revelation 2-3: Monarchical Bishops By 95 AD

It's been argued that Jesus Himself, cited by St. John in the book of Revelation...

February 01, 2024

Reply to Gavin Ortlund: St. Ignatius & Bishops

+ St. Polycarp and St. Clement of Rome On Early Church Ecclesiology Gavin Ortlund is a...

January 2024

January 30, 2024

Jerusalem Council & James, Bishop of Jerusalem

The Ambivalence and Inconsistencies of Protestant Thought on the Earliest "Monarchical" Bishops Protestants, especially Presbyterians...

January 29, 2024

Monarchical Bishops (Early Fathers & Eusebius)

Recently I've written about St. Jerome's view on the matter, as well as St. Ignatius...

January 25, 2024

Ignatius of Antioch on Monarchical Bishops

This is an article related to my dialogue: St. Jerome, Papacy, & Succession (Vs. Gavin...

January 20, 2024

St. Jerome, Papacy, & Succession (vs. Gavin Ortlund)

Gavin Ortlund is a Reformed Baptist author, speaker, pastor, and apologist for the Christian faith....

January 09, 2024

Vs. Turretin #9: Church #2 (Indefectibility)

François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian and renowned defender of the Calvinistic (Reformed) orthodoxy represented by the Synod of...

January 04, 2024

Vs. Turretin #8: Church #1 (Infallibility 1)

François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian and renowned defender of the Calvinistic (Reformed) orthodoxy represented by the Synod of...

November 2023

November 24, 2023

Are the Vatican II Documents “Ambiguous”?

Chapter 12 (pp. 99-111) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 22, 2023

Is Vatican II a “Modernist” Council?

Chapter 11 (pp. 91-98) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 16, 2023

The Indefectibility of the Church

Chapter 3 (pp. 31-35) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

October 2023

October 30, 2023

“Catholic Verses” #6: Interpreting Scripture

Including: How Far Away Were the Cities that the Jerusalem Council Bound to its Decrees?...

October 25, 2023

“Catholic Verses” #2: Jerusalem Council

Also: the Ten Commandments in the New Covenant; Church Fathers On the Binding Nature of...

October 24, 2023

“Catholic Verses” #1: 1 Tim 3:15 (Church)

Also, the Biblical Definition of the Gospel [see book and purchase information for The Catholic...

October 16, 2023

The Authority of the Catholic Church, Pt. 2

[see the book info-page for this volume / buy Kindle or Nook versions] * Second part (pp. 100-136) of...

October 14, 2023

The Authority of the Catholic Church, Pt. 1

[see the book info-page for this volume / buy Kindle or Nook versions] * First part (pp. 59-99) of...

October 13, 2023

Vs. J. Engwer Re Church Authority, #2: St. Irenaeus

In Particular, His & Other Fathers' -- and Luther's and Calvin's -- Views on Church...

October 12, 2023

Vs. J. Engwer Re Church Authority, #1: Preliminaries

Including St. Augustine on the Visible Catholic Church; St. Irenaeus on Church Infallibility; Biblical Data...

September 2023

September 27, 2023

Debate on the Jerusalem Council (vs. Steve Hays)

[see book and purchase information] The late Steve Hays made a response to me on...

September 02, 2023

Apostolic Succession, Judas, & Matthias

[originally posted on 5-26-23 on Facebook] *** Luke cites Psalms 108:8 in Acts 1:20: "His...

May 2023

May 22, 2023

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #11

Visible Church; Eucharist in Acts 2:42; Ever-Changing Catholicism? The late Steve Hays (1959-2020) was a Calvinist...

April 2023

April 22, 2023

On Former Catholics & Why They Left the Church

I received a letter from a man who was raised as a Catholic in the...

March 2023

March 16, 2023

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 6

The Innumerable Perils of Perspicuity of Scripture and Private Judgment The book, The Infallibility of the...

March 15, 2023

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 5

Private Judgment, the Rule of Faith, and Dr. Salmon's Weak Fallible Protestant "Church": Subject to...

March 12, 2023

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 2

. . . In Which Dr. Salmon Accuses Cardinal Newman of Lying Through His Teeth...

February 2023

February 20, 2023

“Asbury Revival”: So Far So Good, But Be Watchful

See a good overview article about it (including several videos). My title precisely describes my initial...

February 09, 2023

Church = Foundation of the Truth (1 Tim 3:15) (vs. L. Banzoli)

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-Day...

December 2022

December 10, 2022

Debate: Early Catholic Authority & Development of Ecclesiology

Vs. Protestant Apologist Jason Engwer Jason Engwer, who runs the Tribalblogue site, wrote a post...

December 09, 2022

Jerusalem Council, “Idol” Food, Paul, & Doctrinal Development

Reply to Lydia McGrew My friend Lydia McGrew is a scholar in the area of...

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