Forwarded from Saint Lukas The Historian
Quote Gregory the Great:
"I say it without the least hesitation, whoever calls himself the universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor of Antichrist, because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. "
"I say it without the least hesitation, whoever calls himself the universal bishop, or desires this title, is, by his pride, the precursor of Antichrist, because he thus attempts to raise himself above the others. "
Forwarded from Ralph Raymond Tan-Sadlucap Perez
"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope. I know very well that many defend themselves by boasting: 'They are so corrupt, and work all manner of evil!' But God has commanded that, even if the priests, the pastors, and Christ-on-earth were incarnate devils, we be obedient and subject to them, not for their sakes, but for the sake of God, and out of obedience to Him."
- St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.
- St. Catherine of Siena, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church.
Forwarded from Ralph Raymond Tan-Sadlucap Perez
- St. Catherine of Siena, SCS, p. 201-202, p. 222, (quoted in Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 5: "The Book of Obedience", Chapter 1: "There is No Salvation Without Personal Submission to the Pope").
It's from a book
It's from a book
“That we may be altogether of the same mind and in conformity with the Church herself, if she shall have defined anything to be black which to our eyes appears to be white, we ought in like manner to pronounce it black.”
– [St. Ignatius Loyola, “Rules for Thinking with the Church”, Rule 13, (cited from: Documents of the Christian Church, pp. 364-365, ed. Henry Bettenson, New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1947.)]
– [St. Ignatius Loyola, “Rules for Thinking with the Church”, Rule 13, (cited from: Documents of the Christian Church, pp. 364-365, ed. Henry Bettenson, New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1947.)]
What is the Gospel According to the Eastern Orthodox Church?
https://thereformedninja.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-gospel-according-to-eastern.html
https://thereformedninja.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-is-gospel-according-to-eastern.html
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What is the Gospel According to the Eastern Orthodox Church?
What is the Gospel according to the Eastern Orthodox Church? What is the Good News? What is it that the Eastern Orthodox Church proclaims to...
SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION: A STUDY OF 2 THESSALONIANS 2:15
https://rlwatsonauthor.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/scripture-and-tradition/
https://rlwatsonauthor.wordpress.com/2023/12/21/scripture-and-tradition/
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Scripture and tradition: A study of 2 Thessalonians 2:15
Early on in our conversation, I was presented with a passage of Scripture that seemed to suggest that Christians are to hold to that which was written as well as an oral tradition. And that passage…
Forwarded from Covenantal Pugilist
"Not the matter of the bread, but the word pronounced over it, is what profits the one eating not unworthily of the Lord. And this indeed of a typical and symbolical body. Moreover many things could be said also of the word itself, that it was made flesh, and true food, which he who eats, shall live forever, which no wicked person can eat" (Commentary on Matthew 11.14 on Mt. 15:11).
- Origen
- Origen
John Calvin's Letter to Cardinal Sadoleto (1539)
https://www.monergism.com/john-calvins-letter-cardinal-sadoleto-1539
Cardinal Sadolet's exchange with John Calvin provides the occasion for what is surely the most powerful argument for the Protestant Reformation ever issued.
The occasion of this exchange is John Calvin's sojourn in Strassburg, then a city of Germany. Germany had by then been thoroughly reformed, but Geneva in Switzerland had banished Calvin and Peter Farel in 1538 for trying to enforce reformation too quickly and too strictly.
With the reformers banished, Rome saw opportunity to return the great city of Geneva to the fold. They set Cardinal James Sadolet, one of those rare Catholic prelates that was a man of untarnished character, on the task. Cardinal Sadolet was also an eloquent and cultured man, and he used those talents to write a letter of great force to the council in Geneva in 1539.
https://www.christian-history.org/cardinal-sadolet.html
https://www.monergism.com/john-calvins-letter-cardinal-sadoleto-1539
Cardinal Sadolet's exchange with John Calvin provides the occasion for what is surely the most powerful argument for the Protestant Reformation ever issued.
The occasion of this exchange is John Calvin's sojourn in Strassburg, then a city of Germany. Germany had by then been thoroughly reformed, but Geneva in Switzerland had banished Calvin and Peter Farel in 1538 for trying to enforce reformation too quickly and too strictly.
With the reformers banished, Rome saw opportunity to return the great city of Geneva to the fold. They set Cardinal James Sadolet, one of those rare Catholic prelates that was a man of untarnished character, on the task. Cardinal Sadolet was also an eloquent and cultured man, and he used those talents to write a letter of great force to the council in Geneva in 1539.
https://www.christian-history.org/cardinal-sadolet.html
Monergism
John Calvin's Letter to Cardinal Sadoleto (1539) | Monergism
After Calvin's expulsion from Geneva (1538), , the archbishop of Carpentras (in southern France, near Avignon, about as far from Geneva as Strasbourg was, but
Forwarded from Presbyterian and Reformed (Peter Ramus)
Here's a perfect example of how Apostolic Succession doesn't mean much. How is some normie with no training supposed to pick which of three contenders is "The Orthodox Church?" @Presbyterianism
Iconology and Imperial Captivity: A Case Study of the Metamorphosis of Theology in the Byzantine Church
http://godlightangels.blogspot.com/2021/10/iconology-and-imperial-captivity-case.html
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Iconology and Imperial Captivity: A Case Study of the Metamorphosis of Theology in the Byzantine Church
One of the popular myths of the Eastern Orthodox and Roman branches of the Church is that their present theology is in substance unchanged f...
Veneration vs. Adoration: Eastern Orthodox Iconology and Red Herrings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWwziUGltg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYWwziUGltg
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Veneration vs. Adoration: Eastern Orthodox Iconology and Red Herrings
One of the key issues driving the Eastern Orthodox canonical argument regarding icons is the supposed distinction between adoration and veneration. I would like to point out a further problem with this framework, and how the distinction between adoration…
Forwarded from Protestant Post (Dr. Basedologist)
I wish the reader to understand that as often as we mention Faith alone in this question, we are not thinking of a dead faith, which worketh not by love, but holding faith to be the only cause of justification. (Gal. 5:6; Rom. 3:22.) It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone: just as it is the heat alone of the sun which warms the earth, and yet in the sun it is not alone, because it is constantly conjoined with light. Wherefore we do not separate the whole grace of regeneration from faith, but claim the power and faculty of justifying entirely for faith, as we ought.
– John Calvin, Antidote to the Council of Trent, 6th Session on Justification, Canon 11
– John Calvin, Antidote to the Council of Trent, 6th Session on Justification, Canon 11
Icon Veneration is STILL an Accretion (Response to Hamilton/Garten)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEw8PxXky8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNEw8PxXky8
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Icon Veneration is STILL an Accretion (Response to Hamilton/Garten)
Gavin Ortlund responds to Michael Garten and Seraphim Hamilton on icon veneration as defined at Nicaea 2.
See their video: https://youtu.be/xo6-UDl7zq8?si=S5Lgm4COZhXUX_69
Truth Unites (www.truthunites.org) exists to promote gospel assurance through theological…
See their video: https://youtu.be/xo6-UDl7zq8?si=S5Lgm4COZhXUX_69
Truth Unites (www.truthunites.org) exists to promote gospel assurance through theological…
Nicea II council (pro-icons) rejected by the Western Latin church
http://forums.anglican.net/threads/nicea-ii-council-pro-icons-rejected-by-the-western-latin-church.4145/
http://forums.anglican.net/threads/nicea-ii-council-pro-icons-rejected-by-the-western-latin-church.4145/
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Nicea II council (pro-icons) rejected by the Western Latin church
I've often mentioned how the Western Latin Church rejected the Nicea II Council of the 8th century, which established the prayer to images in the Greek...
Epiphanius didn't Fall for the Collyridian Teaching of the Bodily Assumption
http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2023/08/epiphanius-didnt-fall-for-collyridian.html
http://turretinfan.blogspot.com/2023/08/epiphanius-didnt-fall-for-collyridian.html
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Epiphanius didn't Fall for the Collyridian Teaching of the Bodily Assumption
Assumptionist argument: Epiphanius claims May was bodily assumed, because he compares her to Elijah, based on Panarion 79. This, they asser...