Hilary Mantel, On the R. Catholic Church
29 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Roman Catholicism
Hilary Mantel, English novelist & writer, born English Roman Catholic. It is sad to see the damage she feels and expresses from the RCC! Whether this is real or not, this is her perception. Again very sad!
Nicene Council, 325 A.D.
26 May 2012 Leave a Comment
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Peter Leithart, ‘Too Catholic-to-be-Catholic’.
24 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Catholic Christianity
http://www.leithart.com/2012/05/21/too-catholic-to-be-catholic/
With the Ordinariate flood, this piece by Leithart should be read, there are still many of us Anglicans, who somewhat like Leithart, don’t consider going to Rome an option. Though we should agree to disagree, and stand as close as we can together.
Calvin, On the Decree to allow the Fall..
23 May 2012 5 Comments
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Calvin / Institutes
“The decree [Fall of Adam] is dreadful indeed, I confess. Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree.” (Calvin, Inst. III, xxiii, 7)
Jesus Is Lord, quote by F.F. Bruce
22 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: F.F. Bruce - Lordship of Christ
‘To Paul, however (and to other early Christians), the acknowledgment of Jesus as Lord in the highest sense which that title can bear was far from being the result of a linguistic accident; it was far, too, from being but an ex officio designation of the Messiah. It was the most adequate term for expressing what he (and his fellow-believers) had come to understand and appreciate of Jesus’ person and achievement and his present decisive role in the outworking of God’s purpose of blessing for the universe.’ (F.F. Bruce, Apostle of the Heart Set Free, p. 117)
Thanks to The Old Guys
Disbelief and ‘false faith’
19 May 2012 1 Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Debelief and False Faith
“John Calvin famously commented that ‘Unfaithfulness. . . was the root of the Fall’. (Calvin, Inst.) Adam and Eve displayed a lack of faith in what God had said. Yet from another perspective, Adam and Eve in Genesis 3 are people of great faith. They do believe someone and something. The problem is they believe in the wrong person and the wrong thing: they believe a creature rather than the Creator, and exchange the truth about God for a lie. There is belief – even belief in God – but it is belief in a falsehood about him. Francis Turretin, Calvin’s seventeenth-century successor at Geneva, captures this idea when he speaks of Adam ‘engendering a false faith from [Satan's] lies.” (Francis Turretin, Institutes of Elenctic Theology / From, ‘Pierced For Our Transgressions’, etc. edited book.)
The Infallibility Of The Church, by George Salmon, D.D.
19 May 2012 1 Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Biblical Infallibility
http://ia700307.us.archive.org/14/items/a607385500salmuoft/a607385500salmuoft_djvu.txt
This is of course a classic negative to the Roman doctrine here.
A Charles Wesley Hymn
19 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: A Charles Wesley Hymn
‘And am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply With nature’s stern decree? What after death for me remains? Celestial joys, or hellish pains, To all eternity?And am I only born to die? And must I suddenly comply With nature’s stern decree? What after death for me remains? Celestial joys, or hellish pains, To all eternity? How then ought I on earth to live, While God prolongs the kind reprieve And props the house of clay? My sole concern, my single care, To watch, and tremble, and prepare Against the fatal day. No room for mirth or trifling here, For worldly hope, or worldly fear, If life so soon is gone: If now the Judge is at the door, And all mankind must stand before The inexorable throne! No matter which my thoughts employ, A moment’s misery, or joy; But O! when both shall end, Where shall I find my destined place? Shall I my everlasting days With fiends, or angels spend? Nothing is worth a thought beneath But how I may escape the death That never, never dies; How make mine own election sure, And, when I fail on earth, secure A mansion in the skies. Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray, Be Thou my guide, be Thou my way To glorious happiness; Ah, write the pardon on my heart, And whensoe’er I hence depart, Let me depart in peace. How then ought I on earth to live, While God prolongs the kind reprieve And props the house of clay? My sole concern, my single care, To watch, and tremble, and prepare Against the fatal day. No room for mirth or trifling here, For worldly hope, or worldly fear, If life so soon is gone: If now the Judge is at the door, And all mankind must stand before The inexorable throne! No matter which my thoughts employ, A moment’s misery, or joy; But O! when both shall end, Where shall I find my destined place? Shall I my everlasting days With fiends, or angels spend? Nothing is worth a thought beneath But how I may escape the death That never, never dies; How make mine own election sure, And, when I fail on earth, secure A mansion in the skies. Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray, Be Thou my guide, be Thou my way To glorious happiness; Ah, write the pardon on my heart, And whensoe’er I hence depart, Let me depart in peace.’
Calvin, and the Necessity of The Mediator..
18 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Calvin / Institutes
“Hence, it was necessary for the Son of God to become for us “Immanuel”, that is, God with us,” and in such a way that his divinity and our human nature might by mutual connection grow together. Otherwise the nearness would not have been near enough, for the affinity sufficiently firm, for us to hope that God might dwell with us.” (Calvin, Inst. II, xii, 1)
Calvin on Reason..
17 May 2012 Leave a Comment
in Christology, Church, Revelation, Theology Tags: Calvin, Reason - Inst.
“Since reason, therefore, which by man distinguishes between good and evil, and by which he understands and judges, is a natural gift, it could not be completely wiped out; but it was partly weakened and partly corrupted, so that its misshapen ruins appear.
When we so condemn human understanding for its perpetual blindness as to leave it no perception of any object whatever, we not only go against God’s Word, but also run counter to the experience of common sense.
Yet the fact remains that some seed of political order has been implanted in all men. And this is ample proof that in the arrangement of this life no man is without the light of reason. (II, ii, 12-13)
To sum up: We see among all mankind that reason is proper to our nature; it distinguishes us from brute beasts, just as they by possessing feeling differ from inanimate things.” (Calvin, Inst. II, ii, 17)
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