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December 2024

December 10, 2024

Doctrinal Development: 80 Bible Passages

C. S. Lewis, the famous Anglican apologist, once wrote: The very possibility of progress demands...

March 2021

March 26, 2021

Cardinal Newman’s Premises Re Doctrinal Development

[book and purchase information] Everyone has axioms that they can't absolutely prove, by definition. That...

March 25, 2021

Development of Doctrine: an Exclusively Catholic Concept?

[book and purchase information] Reply to a Protestant apologist's comments (in blue) on a public...

July 2020

July 08, 2020

Cdl. Newman, Vatican I & II, & Papal Infallibility (Clarification)

[see book and purchase information] St. John Henry Cardinal Newman fully accepted (indeed, was pleased with) the...

July 06, 2020

Dispute Over the Nature of Doctrinal Development

This took place on Anglican Church historian Dr. Edwin Tait's Ithilien blog. "thoughtspot's" words will be in blue....

June 2020

June 02, 2020

Catholic Development of Doctrine: A Defense: Part IV

vs. Jason Engwer (Emphasis on the Canon of the Bible & Church Infallibility) [originally posted...

June 02, 2020

Catholic Development of Doctrine: A Defense: Part III

vs. Jason Engwer (Emphasis on the Canon of the Bible & Church Infallibility) [originally posted...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Catholic Development of Doctrine: A Defense: Part II

vs. Jason Engwer (Emphasis on the Canon of the Bible & Church Infallibility) [originally posted...

May 31, 2020

Catholic Development of Doctrine: A Defense: Part I

vs. Jason Engwer (Emphasis on the Canon of the Bible & Church Infallibility) [originally posted...

April 2020

April 19, 2020

Dialogue on Doctrinal Development (Papacy & NT Canon)

This is a reply to anti-Catholic Protestant polemicist Jason Engwer's paper, Dave Armstrong and Development of...

April 19, 2020

Eastern Orthodoxy, Councils, & Doctrinal Development

I've been told by Orthodox that it is actually possible to call an Ecumenical Council,...

April 01, 2020

Development of Doctrine in Orthodoxy & Catholicism

Is There an Essential Difference? Original cover of my book, from which this is drawn...

February 2020

February 06, 2020

Salesian Apologetics #5: Authority of Church Fathers

This is one of a series of extensive excerpts (with my occasional commentary) from The...

March 2019

March 21, 2019

A Brief Introduction to the Development of Doctrine

Development of Doctrine Development is how Catholics try to explain away their doctrinal novelties Christian...

February 2019

February 17, 2019

C. S. Lewis on Inevitable Development of Doctrine

What did the early Christians believe? Did they believe that God really has a material...

October 2018

October 29, 2018

Does Papal History Contradict Catholic Ecclesiology?

I would argue that the office of the papacy is explicitly indicated in the Bible itself,...

July 2018

July 19, 2018

Catholic Synthesis of Development & “Believed Always by All”

A false assumption is often made by anti-Catholics and other critics of the Catholic Church,...

July 18, 2018

Early Development of the Papacy: Random Reflections

Why establish an office (Peter, in effect, was made the prime minister of the Church...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

Overview of Development of Doctrine (TV Interview)

Development of Christian doctrine is a subject near and dear to my heart, as it...

June 11, 2018

Classic Catholic Reflections on Development of Doctrine

Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman: portrait by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96) [public domain] ***...

December 2017

December 14, 2017

Dialogue on Development of Doctrine (Esp. the Papacy)

vs. Protestant apologist and anti-Catholic polemicist Jason Engwer The following is a reply to Protestant...

November 2017

November 08, 2017

William Webster vs. Tradition, Development, & Truth

(4-10-03) *** William Webster is a prolific opponent of the Catholic Church and author of...

June 2017

June 09, 2017

William Webster’s Misunderstanding of Development of Doctrine

(with particular reference to the papacy, Vatican I, Pope Leo XIII, St. Vincent of Lerins,...

March 2017

March 20, 2017

Development of Doctrine: Patristic & Historical Development

Featuring Much Documentation from St. Augustine, St. Vincent of Lerins, St. Thomas Aquinas. Vatican I,...

August 2016

August 11, 2016

John Calvin: Ignatian Epistles (c. 110) Not Authentic

Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1828-1889): Anglican biblical scholar, translator of the early Church fathers and Bishop...

April 2016

April 12, 2016

St. Augustine Was CATHOLIC, Not Proto-Protestant!

Portrait of St. Augustine (c. 1480) by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons]...

October 2007

October 07, 2007

Introduction to Dave Armstrong’s Book, “Catholic Church Fathers”

(revised on 28 August 2013) *** Protestants and Catholics both claim that the early Church...

March 2007

March 01, 2007

Fathers of the Church (Index Page)

Four doctors of the Church: left to right: St. Augustine, Pope St. Gregory the...

November 2006

November 09, 2006

Development of Doctrine (Index Page for Dave Armstrong)

[see full book and purchase information] ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. General, Introductory, &...

March 2006

March 08, 2006

Development of Doctrine: A Corruption of Biblical Teaching?

[link for complete information about this book] *** [Written in 1995. This article was published...

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