A good while back I wrote articles asking whether or not Christians and Muslims worship the same God and whether or not liberals and Evangelicals believe in the same God. I was reminded of those articles by recent conversations following the death of the Pope. One person suggested that we should recognise our creedal unity… Continue reading Do Evangelicals and Catholics believe in the same God?
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Why I’m still a Protestant … And why you should be too
Evangelical responses to the death of the Pope have highlighted some confusion about our identity. Being Protestant feels like an anachronistic embarrassment. This perhaps reflects confusion about what the Catholic Church teaches about the Gospel.
Perpetual Virginity – Making theology unnecessarily complicated
Roman Catholics place a strong emphasis on Mary as worthy of homage and devotion. They refer to her as The Virgin Mary, believing that she was a perpetual virgin. This goes beyond the idea of a virgin conception or virgin birth to a permanent, celibate life. I want to have a look at this in… Continue reading Perpetual Virginity – Making theology unnecessarily complicated
What was the basis of the Reformation criticism of veneration of Saints?
Explaining the basis for the reformation criticism of the veneration seems at first to be a straight-forward task of finding out what the arguments were that the reformers used. However, a number of contemporary historians have criticised the reliability of such an approach arguing that the reformers arguments alone fail to explain why change occurred… Continue reading What was the basis of the Reformation criticism of veneration of Saints?
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