Posts Tagged ‘ Reformed Theology ’

Michael Horton on Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life”

Jun 23rd, 2011 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Recently Michael Horton reviewed Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life. Michael is the editor-in-chief of Modern Reformation, co-host of the White Horse Inn radio program, the J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics at Westminster Seminary California, and one of the most well-known and well-respected Reformed figures today. For this reason, when […]



Pope Pius XI Addresses the Federal Vision Controversy

May 19th, 2011 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Pope Pius XI Addresses the Federal Vision Controversy. Alright, not exactly, but His Holiness comes pretty close in hisĀ 1928 theological defense (in Mortalium Animos)Ā of the one and only Church Christ founded. In paragraph six, he explains why the Church of Christ must be a visible and united communion and that it cannot be invisible or […]



The Catholic Perspective on Paul – a New Book

Nov 24th, 2010 | By | 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 […]



Episode 15 – The Conversion of Annie Witz (OPC)

Nov 24th, 2010 | By | Category: Podcast

In this episode, Tom Riello, former PCA minister, interviews Annie Witz, a convert from the OPC (Orthodox Presbyterian Church). Ā Annie’s father is an elder in the OPC church and serves on the board of Westminster Seminary California. Ā  Annie shares her personal conversion story from being a devout OPC member to a Catholic in the […]



Contraception and the Reformed Faith

Jul 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

The Catholic Church has stood, since its inception, firmly against the use of any artificial methods of contraception. In fact, it is the only Christian institution that, as a whole, has held this teaching consistently for all of Christian history.



St. Augustine on Faith Without Love

Jun 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

ā€œFor this reason Lutherā€™s phrase: ā€œfaith aloneā€ is true, if it is not opposed to faith in charity, in love.ā€ – Pope Benedict XVI Reformed Professor R. Scott Clark in response to Pope Benedict: “That conditional, that ā€œif,ā€ makes all the difference in the world. That one little conditional is the difference between Rome and […]



Augustine on Adam’s Body and Christ’s Body – Is Reformed Theology Truly Augustinian?

Feb 18th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

St. Augustine Here is a simple synopsis of God’s original plan for Adam by Saint Augustine. Notice how Augustine views humanity as “between the angelic and bestial,” since man consists of a immaterial, separable soul and a material body:



The Canon Question

Jan 23rd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured Articles

As Christians, how is it that we know we are saved by the death and resurrection of the incarnate Son of God? For those raised as Christians, the Sunday School sing-song answer “for the Bible



Saint Paul on the Unity of the Catholic Church (An Argument Against the Terms “Lutheran” and “Calvinist”)

Jan 18th, 2010 | By | 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. Paulā€™s First Epistle to the Corinthians seems […]



“Calvinism” Sans Double Election

Aug 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Would Calvinism be improved if it dropped all this talk of ‘double election,’ the doctrine that God chose some from before all time for salvation and the rest for damnation? Rev. Alvin Hoksbergen, a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, proposes in The Banner that a major retooling of election-speak from Reformed pulpits is […]