Books by Dave Armstrong: “Mass Movements: Radical Catholic Reactionaries, the New Mass, and Ecumenism”

Last updated on: December 5, 2023 at 3:42 pm By Dave Armstrong

[205 pages; completed on 20 December 2012 and published at Lulu on the same day; slightly revised on 19 August 2013 (including a new subtitle and some new chapter titles) in order to reflect self-imposed changes in terminology and classification] [cover design by Dave Armstrong] — for purchase information, go to the bottom of the page — TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication (p. 3) [read online] Introduction (p. 5) [read online] *** RADICAL CATHOLIC REACTIONARIES vs. MAINSTREAM “TRADITIONALISM” *** 1.... Read more

Definitions: Radical Catholic Reactionaries vs. Mainstream “Traditionalists”

Last updated on: November 22, 2021 at 4:03 pm By Dave Armstrong

[public domain / Pixabay] *** (12-3-12) *** This is Chapter One of my book, Mass Movements: Radical Catholic Reactionaries, the New Mass, and Ecumenism. * * * 1) I have much in common with “traditionalists”. I admire several things about them: their zeal and concern for orthodoxy, desire to see liturgical and architectural excellence and propriety and traditionalism, observance of traditional Catholic piety and morality, willingness to take on theological liberals and modernists and dissidents, desire to see people come... Read more

“Mass Movements” (Dave Armstrong): Dedication & Introduction

Last updated on: November 15, 2023 at 12:00 pm By Dave Armstrong

(12-3-12) *** DEDICATION To those Catholics – in God’s foreknowledge – that are currently sliding down the slippery slope to eventual schism and separation from Holy Mother Church. May it never be! May God in His grace help you to not do so! May this book be used for that purpose. St. Paul wrote to the Galatians, whom he dearly loved: “Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth?” (4:16). Proverbs 27:5-6 concurs: “Better is open rebuke... Read more

Dialogue on Newman’s Kingsley / “Apologia” Controversy

Last updated on: May 28, 2017 at 5:31 pm By Dave Armstrong

(11-27-12) *** The following all came about in the combox for Brandon Vogt’s excellent article, “How Cardinal Newman Handled the Haters” (11-26-12). A fellow Catholic writer, Paul Priest, made some very critical observations about Newman’s famous sarcastic retorts to the charges of fundamental dishonesty leveled at him by the Anglican priest and polemicist, Charles Kingsley. Brandon himself asked me my thoughts in response, and I gave them, complete with several Newman quotations, culled from my research for my Quotable Newman... Read more

“Cult” as a Synonym for “Heretical Sect”: Controversial?

Last updated on: May 28, 2017 at 5:35 pm By Dave Armstrong

Charles Taze Russell (1852-1916), founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, an Arian cult, c. 1915 [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (11-8-12) *** This came about as a result of a person reading the dedication (posted online) from my book, Theology of God: Biblical, Chalcedonian Trinitarianism and Christology. Here it is: To the evangelical Protestant “cult watchers” and “cult researchers” (especially the late Dr. Walter Martin): among whom I first began utilizing the Bible in order to refute non-trinitarian heresies such as... Read more

Books by Dave Armstrong: “A Biblical Critique of Calvinism”

Last updated on: November 30, 2023 at 3:50 pm By Dave Armstrong

[178 pages. Completed on 23 October 2012; published at Lulu on the same day] [cover: Calvinist iconoclastic riot in Lyons in 1562] [cover design by Dave and Judy Armstrong] — For purchase, go to the bottom of the page — Subtitle: Replies to Exegetical Arguments in John Calvin’s Institutes, Books I-III TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Introduction [read in its entirety] I. Salvation, Justification, Sanctification, and Predestination 1. Is God the Author of Evil? [read lengthy excerpt on... Read more

Temporal Punishment After Forgiveness (vs. John Calvin)

Last updated on: May 28, 2017 at 5:40 pm By Dave Armstrong

(10-18-12) *** [portion of my book, A Biblical Critique of Calvinism] *** They endeavor, indeed, to disentangle themselves, but it is impossible. They pretend a distinction between penalty and guilt, holding that the guilt is forgiven by the mercy of God; but that though the guilt is remitted, the punishment which divine justice requires to be paid remains. Satisfactions then properly relate to the remission of the penalty. How ridiculous this levity! They now confess that the remission of guilt... Read more

“Theology of God: Biblical, Chalcedonian Trinitarianism and Christology”

Last updated on: November 30, 2023 at 3:30 pm By Dave Armstrong

[156 pages; completed on 14 November 2012 and published at Lulu on 15 November 2012] [cover design by Dave Armstrong] — For purchase, go to the bottom of the page — Dedication *** To the evangelical Protestant “cult watchers” and “cult researchers” (especially the late Dr. Walter Martin): among whom I first began utilizing the Bible in order to refute non-trinitarian heresies such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, Unitarianism, Christian Science, and the United Pentecostal Church, way back in 1981.... Read more

“A Biblical Critique of Calvinism” (Dave Armstrong): Introduction

Last updated on: May 28, 2017 at 5:42 pm By Dave Armstrong

(10-1-12) *** The present volume [link to book-page] is a follow-up or “Volume II” to my previous book, Biblical Catholic Answers for John Calvin (Lulu, 2010). That work, for the most part, was devoted to comprehensive (often literally line-by-line) replies to Book IV of Calvin’s magnum opus, Institutes of the Christian Religion: the portion devoted largely to ecclesiology, or the doctrine of the Church. A little less ambitious and more specifically focused this time, I’ll be replying only to biblical... Read more

Doctrine of Divine Simplicity (Undivided Unity of Substance)

Last updated on: May 28, 2017 at 5:47 pm By Dave Armstrong

Public domain image on Pixabay by “geralt.” *** (9-29-12) *** — from a Facebook thread — * * * * * The Church has long since decreed divine simplicity to be a matter of faith (Denzinger 389, 428, 993, and 1782; cf. Ott, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, pp. 31-32: de fide dogma).But William Lane Craig (prominent evangelical philosopher and apologist), not being bound by mere ecumenical and papal declarations, or the non-binding nuisance of purely optional sacred tradition, picks and... Read more