Vs. Turretin #5: Communion Of Saints 5 (Relics)

Last updated on: December 27, 2023 at 2:12 pm By Dave Armstrong

François Turretin (1623-1687) was a Genevan-Italian Reformed scholastic theologian and renowned defender of the Calvinistic (Reformed) orthodoxy represented by the Synod of Dort, and was one of the authors of the Helvetic Consensus (1675). He is generally considered to be the best Calvinist apologist besides John Calvin himself. His Institutes of Elenctic Theology (three volumes, Geneva, 1679–1685) used the scholastic method. “Elenctic” means “refuting an argument by proving the falsehood of its conclusion.” Turretin contended against the conflicting Christian perspectives of Catholicism and Arminianism. It was a popular textbook; notably at Princeton Theological Seminary, until it was replaced by Charles Hodge‘s Systematic Theology in... Read more

Vs. Turretin #4: Communion Of Saints 4 (Invocation)

Last updated on: December 26, 2023 at 9:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Bible on Deference to Popes & Leaders, & Disobedience

Last updated on: December 26, 2023 at 11:20 am By Dave Armstrong

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St. John Henry Cardinal Newman’s approach to this topic was vastly different from many (and the most fashionable, chic opinions) today: I have said that, like St. Peter, he is the Vicar of his Lord. He can judge, and he can acquit; he can pardon, and he can condemn; he can command and he can permit; he can forbid, and he can punish. He has a Supreme jurisdiction over the people of God. He can stop the ordinary course of sacramental... Read more

Vs. Turretin #3: Communion Of Saints 3 (Intercession)

Last updated on: December 23, 2023 at 12:06 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Vs. Turretin #2: Communion Of Saints 2 (Veneration)

Last updated on: December 22, 2023 at 2:49 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Vs. Turretin #1: Communion of Saints 1 (Preliminaries)

Last updated on: December 21, 2023 at 11:38 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Pedro Gabriel’s Masterful “Heresy Disguised as Tradition”

Last updated on: December 18, 2023 at 11:35 am By Dave Armstrong

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[purchase directly from the publisher] [purchase from Amazon] ***** Pedro Gabriel is an oncologist who is also a very fine Catholic apologist. In this book, he pinpoints the serious underlying and presuppositional problems of the extreme sectors of the traditionalist movement in Catholicism, by use of brilliant Newmanesque analogies from past historical movements related to the Catholic Church. He demonstrates how, ironically, these reactionaries are tragically attempting to defend what they deem to be “tradition” when in fact, they have... Read more

Bible on Marriage and Sexuality

Last updated on: December 11, 2023 at 2:00 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 14 (pp. 401-426) of my book, Bible Truths for Catholic Truths: A Source Book for Apologists and Inquirers (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2009); the paperback is now out-of-print. This book could also be known as Dave’s Topical Bible, and contains 2,051 Bible passages, categorized under 115 thematic headings. I am now offering it online for free. * In these blog posts I use — for readers’ convenience — the original RSV of the manuscript (© 1971 by Division of Christian Education... Read more

Bible on the Blessed Virgin Mary

Last updated on: December 11, 2023 at 1:06 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 13 (pp. 383-397) of my book, Bible Truths for Catholic Truths: A Source Book for Apologists and Inquirers (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2009); the paperback is now out-of-print. This book could also be known as Dave’s Topical Bible, and contains 2,051 Bible passages, categorized under 115 thematic headings. I am now offering it online for free. * In these blog posts I use — for readers’ convenience — the original RSV of the manuscript (© 1971 by Division of... Read more

Bible on Angels & the Communion of Saints

Last updated on: December 11, 2023 at 12:51 pm By Dave Armstrong

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Chapter 12 (pp. 361-379) of my book, Bible Truths for Catholic Truths: A Source Book for Apologists and Inquirers (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 2009); the paperback is now out-of-print. This book could also be known as Dave’s Topical Bible, and contains 2,051 Bible passages, categorized under 115 thematic headings. I am now offering it online for free. * In these blog posts I use — for readers’ convenience — the original RSV of the manuscript (© 1971 by Division of... Read more