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Original Sin ’
Jul 12th, 2012 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
Ligonier recently posted a lecture by R.C. Sproul titled “A Divided Will?” in which Sproul sets out to present and criticize the Catholic doctrine of original sin and free will.
Tags: Augustine, Calvinism, Free Will, Grace, Justification, Original Sin, Pelagianism
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Oct 16th, 2011 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
What objections have various Protestant theologians raised to the Catholic doctrines of original justice and original sin, and what is the Catholic reply to these objections? Here I present some Protestant arguments against the Catholic doctrines of original justice and original sin, from Martin Luther, John Calvin, Francis Turretin, Charles Hodge, Gordon Clark, and Peter […]
Tags: Anthropology, Grace, Human Nature, Original Justice, Original Sin
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Oct 1st, 2011 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
On September 28, the feast of the martyr St. Wenceslaus in the Catholic liturgical calendar, and also the feast of Rosh Hashanah in the Jewish calendar, Professor Lawrence Feingold of Ave Maria University’s Institute for Pastoral Theology and author of The Natural Desire to See God According to St. Thomas and his Interpreters and the […]
Tags: Grace, Nature, Original Justice, Original Sin
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Nov 24th, 2010 |
By Taylor Marshall |
Category: Blog Posts
We ain’t gonna lie. Many of us on Called to Communion were drawn to the Catholic Church after we had reassessed the “salvation issue” through the lens of the “New Perspective on Paul.” Three years ago, a few friends of mine (including Sean Patrick of Called to Communion) were lamenting that there wasn’t a book […]
Tags: Augustine, Book Reviews, Ecclesiology, Grace, Justification, New Perspective on Paul, Original Sin, Paul, Reformed Theology, Sacraments, Theology, Tradition, Unity
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Apr 5th, 2010 |
By Tim A. Troutman |
Category: Blog Posts
“O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer!” – The Exsultet, Traditionally Sung at the Easter Vigil A simple answer of why God allowed the Fall of man runs like this. God did not desire man’s sin but He respected man’s free will by allowing him to […]
Tags: Aquinas, Original Sin, Philosophy, Suffering, Theology
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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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Nov 3rd, 2009 |
By Tim A. Troutman |
Category: Blog Posts
God is said to will a thing in one of two ways: absolutely or contingently. If God wills a thing absolutely, then it necessarily happens. So a thing which does not happen cannot be said to have been God’s absolute will. But we know per divine revelation that God wills some things to happen that […]
Tags: Original Sin, Philosophy, Providence, Theology
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Aug 30th, 2009 |
By Tim A. Troutman |
Category: Blog Posts
There are certain charges which are worthy of a defense only on account of their frequent repetition. If someone refers to a Calvinist as a hopeless determinist, the well rounded Calvinist might decline to defend such an uneducated attack after hearing it once or twice, but there is a point at which the accused party, […]
Tags: Free Will, Justification, Monergism, Original Sin, Pelagianism, Secondary Causation, Synergism
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Apr 22nd, 2009 |
By Tom Riello |
Category: Blog Posts
Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God say, `You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but […]
Tags: Eucharist, Original Sin, Real Presence
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Mar 14th, 2009 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts, Featured Articles
Before I talk about the fifth session of the Council of Trent, I will do two things. First, I will offer a brief summary of Aquinas’ teaching in his Summa Theologiae regarding the essence of original sin. Following that, I will give a short overview of what Aquinas says about the effects of sin. So […]
Tags: Aquinas, Original Sin
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