Posts Tagged ‘ Scripture ’

Why Didn’t Nicaea Address the Canon Question?

Mar 1st, 2010 | By Tim A. Troutman | Category: Blog Posts

Proponents of sola scriptura, especially those who would like to believe that the early Church fathers espoused this doctrine, have an important question to consider. Why didn’t the Church address the canon issue at Nicaea?



A Liturgical Year in Review

Feb 17th, 2010 | By Tim A. Troutman | Category: Blog Posts

One liturgical year ago on this day, Ash Wednesday, we launched Called to Communion with the vision of engaging Reformed Christians on the fundamental issues that keep us divided. Our ultimate goal has ever been the restoration to full sacramental unity of all of God’s people. The division among Christ’s followers scandalizes a [...]



The Tradition and the Lexicon

Feb 10th, 2010 | By Bryan Cross | Category: Blog Posts

About a year and half ago, I came across an internet discussion between a number of Protestants and Catholics talking about what still divided them. I had arrived late to the discussion, and so I read through all the comments with a somewhat different perspective than a participant in the thick of it. The question [...]



Augustine: “He Who Is Mature in Faith, No Longer Needs Scripture”

Feb 3rd, 2010 | By Taylor Marshall | Category: Blog Posts

I was reading Saint Augustine’s De doctrina Christiana today and bumped into a zinger that caused even my own Catholic soul to squirm. In book one, we come to this chapter: Chapter 39.— He Who is Mature in Faith, Hope and Love, Needs Scripture No Longer.



Hermeneutics and the Authority of Scripture

Sep 9th, 2009 | By Matt Yonke | Category: Featured Articles

It is my pleasure to be able to write on a subject where we as Catholics share so much common ground with our Reformed brothers, and even with most Evangelicals. In fact, it is no small thing that we agree upon foundational truths contra mundum in a time when even many Christians deny them.
This article [...]