The Church teaches that interpretation of the Bible must be done within “the living Tradition of the whole Church”. According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church’s heart rather than in documents and…
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The Guidelines are Void
This rubbish has no legal or judicial or administrative force in the real world where we all live. Like last summer’s vacuous, vapid, and vacant SCOTUS decision, these so-called guidelines were a dead letter upon issuance. Like I said about…
Tagged with: human nature, line in the sand, natural law, orwellian, Prayer, reason, tyranny, western civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Western Civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Western Civilization
That they may be one
I read the high priestly prayer of Jesus this morning, and I was struck by something that maybe I have never noticed before. I remembered that the Lord prays not just for the apostles, but also for those who would…
Tagged with: ecumenism, jesus, John 17, Prayer, that they may be one, unity
Posted in Apologetics, Called to Communion, Prayer, Scripture, Unitatis Redintegratio
Posted in Apologetics, Called to Communion, Prayer, Scripture, Unitatis Redintegratio
St. Augustine on the Veneration of the Saints
As part of his critique of paganism St. Augustine in City of God condemns the tradition of making “gods” out of dead heroes and great men of the past; this is one theory as to how Rome came to have…
Tagged with: Augustine, catholic, city of God, saints
Posted in Apologetics, Augustine, Books, city of God, Saints, Western Civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Augustine, Books, city of God, Saints, Western Civilization
Hear the one He sends
Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me. Luke 10:16, NABRE I came across this passage again in my regular reading today and it motivated this…
A limit of inerrancy
The Bible is inerrant, but we are not: This is a fundamental proposition held by both Protestant literalists and by the Catholic Church. Both groups agree that the Bible is inspired by God such that all that Holy Scripture affirms…
Externalities
Longtime readers of this blog may possibly have noticed that the argument of my last few posts is really nothing more than an expanded form of the argument I offered in an article I wrote a few years ago: The…
Tagged with: apologetics, external critique, Protestantism
Posted in Apologetics, Called to Communion, Epistemology, Protestantism, Solo Scriptura
Posted in Apologetics, Called to Communion, Epistemology, Protestantism, Solo Scriptura
Protestant Infallible Interpretation, Part 3
Last time, we ended with a question that becomes necessary as a consequence of certain opinions that were held by (for example) Martin Luther: to wit, that the Holy Spirit helps a person to correctly interpret the Bible. The question…
Tagged with: apologetics, hermeneutics, Protestantism, scripture, solo scriptura
Posted in Apologetics, Calvinism, Epistemology, Infallibility, Protestantism, Scripture, Solo Scriptura
Posted in Apologetics, Calvinism, Epistemology, Infallibility, Protestantism, Scripture, Solo Scriptura
Protestant Infallible Interpretation, Part 2
In our last episode, I examined the Reformed/Presbyterian notion that Scripture is the “infallible interpreter” of Scripture. This model of exegesis does not work, I argued, because the Bible is an object and objects do not interpret themselves. Interpretation is…
Tagged with: hermeneutics, Holy Spirit, Martin Luther, Protestantism, scripture, solo scriptura
Posted in Apologetics, Calvinism, Epistemology, Fides et Ratio, Infallibility, Protestantism, Solo Scriptura
Posted in Apologetics, Calvinism, Epistemology, Fides et Ratio, Infallibility, Protestantism, Solo Scriptura
Protestant Infallible Interpretation
In my last post, I said that the Protestant has made himself the measure of all things when it comes to the Bible: he will decide for himself what the Bible teaches. This amounts to a sort of “baptized Renaissance…
Tagged with: Bible, hermeneutics, infallibility, Protestantism
Posted in Apologetics, Calvinism, Epistemology, Fides et Ratio, Protestantism, Solo Scriptura
Posted in Apologetics, Calvinism, Epistemology, Fides et Ratio, Protestantism, Solo Scriptura
Aquinas, Etc. 