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Baptism ’
Mar 17th, 2012 |
By Fred Noltie |
Category: Blog Posts
In answer to this question we must say āIt depends.ā Some folks think that Catholic acceptance of any Protestant Baptism at all is a Vatican II novelty. This is not the case. Here is what the Catechism of the Council of Trent says: Those who may administer Baptism in case of necessity, but without its […]
Tags: Baptism, Sacraments
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Mar 7th, 2011 |
By Tim A. Troutman |
Category: Blog Posts
Protestants often caricature the Catholic doctrine on sacramentalism as if it taught that a sacrament was something like a magic wand waved over the recipient regardless of his disposition. But this is not an accurate description of the Catholic doctrine.Ā Ā In this short article, I will explain why. On this day, March 7, 1274, St. […]
Tags: Aquinas, Baptism, Faith, Sacramentalism, Sacraments
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Mar 6th, 2011 |
By David Anders |
Category: Featured Articles
Readers of this website are by now thoroughly familiar with Keith Mathisonās book The Shape of Sola Scriptura. His thesis has already received ample criticism (see articles by Cross & Judisch, Liccione, and Judisch), and I do not wish to add to that particular discussion. In this post, I would like instead to grant Mathison […]
Tags: Baptism, Church Fathers, Justification, Sola Fide
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49 comments
Jan 24th, 2011 |
By Tim A. Troutman |
Category: Blog Posts
From the letterĀ Cum, sicut ex to Sigurd, Archbishop of Nidaros (a city in Norway), July 8, 1241: Since as we have learned from your report, it sometimes happens because of the scarcity of water, that infants of your lands are baptized in beer, we reply to you in the tenor of those present that, since […]
Tags: Baptism, Humor, Sacramentalism, Sacraments
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Jun 15th, 2010 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Featured Articles
According to PCA pastor Wes White, the doctrine of baptismal regeneration is “impossible in the Reformed system.”1 By noting this, he intends to show that we should reject the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. But if the evidence for the truth of the doctrine of baptismal regeneration is stronger than the evidence for the truth of […]
Tags: Baptism, Justification, Regeneration, Sacraments
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133 comments
May 27th, 2010 |
By Tim A. Troutman |
Category: Blog Posts
The period of persecution under Decius in the middle of the third century and the subsequent controversies in Italy and Northern Africa is one of the most confusing periods of ante-Nicene Church history. So much writing has survived that we are able to bring a lot of characters into play. To make things more confusing, […]
Tags: Baptism, Book Reviews, Church History, Patristics, The Papacy
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Mar 12th, 2010 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
Recently I was asked for my evaluation of Doug Wilson’s article titled “Authority and Apostolic Succession.” For the sake of any others who may be interested in a Catholic evaluation of Doug’s article, I am posting my evaluation here.
Tags: Apostolic Succession, Authority, Baptism, Ecclesiology
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86 comments
Mar 7th, 2010 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
On this day, March 7, in the year 1274, seven hundred and thirty six years ago, St. Thomas Aquinas departed from this life, and thus today is his traditional feast day.1 Last year, on this day, I began a series of posts intending to show how St. Thomas’s theology helps explain the soteriology set forth […]
Tags: Aquinas, Baptism, Concupiscence, Original Sin, Trent
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77 comments
Jan 18th, 2010 |
By Taylor Marshall |
Category: Blog Posts
Non-Catholics (and yes, even the Eastern Orthodox) do not enjoy the ecclesial unity Saint Paul prescribed for the Church of Jesus Christ. Saint Paul is resolute in his conviction that the Church of Christ must be one. Most of his epistles specifically speak against disunity within the Church. Paulās First Epistle to the Corinthians seems […]
Tags: Baptism, Ecclesiology, Ecumenicism, Paul, Reformed Theology, Sacramentalism
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Jan 6th, 2010 |
By Andrew Preslar |
Category: Blog Posts
The Catholic Church dogmatically affirms that Sacred Scripture indeed teaches the salvific efficacy of baptism, where “baptism” refers to the sacrament in which a person is washed with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and “salvation” refers to the bestowal of gifts whereby a person […]
Tags: Baptism, Salvation
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