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Tradition ’
Dec 8th, 2011 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. Last year, immediately preceding this Solemnity, Taylor posted “Mary Without Sin (Scripture and Tradition),” and on the Feast I posted “Mary’s Immaculate Conception, in which I included podcasts of Prof. Lawrence Feingold’s lecture and Q&A on this dogma. Those two posts provide evidence for the Catholic dogma, [...]
Tags: Apostolic Succession, Authority, Evangelicalism, Mary, Sola Scriptura, Tradition
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Sep 22nd, 2011 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Lead Article
There are some ancient Christian doctrines that only the Catholic Church has retained. One such doctrine is her teaching on contraception, which was the unanimous teaching of the Church Fathers, and which all Christians shared for nineteen centuries until the Lambeth Conference of 1930. At that conference the Anglican Church decided to permit the use [...]
Tags: Church Fathers, Divorce, Marriage, Sacraments, Tradition
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Jul 20th, 2011 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Blog Posts
Leonardo De Chirico Leonardo De Chirico is a Protestant lecturer in theology at IFED (Istituto di Formazione Evangelica e Documentazione) in Padova, Italy. He edits the theological journal Studi di teologia. He also worked in Italy for twelve years as a Reformed Baptist church planter. Over the past few months Leonardo has posted a series [...]
Tags: Authority, Ecclesiology, Scripture, Tradition
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Jun 13th, 2011 |
By Barrett Turner |
Category: Blog Posts
When I first began to take interest in theology, and in Reformed theology in particular, during college, I learned the story of how the Catholic Church closed herself off to serious study of the Holy Bible at the Council of Trent (1545-1563). The act in question is the Council’s enshrining the Vulgate, Jerome’s Latin translation [...]
Tags: John Calvin, Scripture, Tradition, Trent
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May 25th, 2011 |
By Bryan Cross |
Category: Featured Articles
Yesterday (May 24) was the feast day of St. Vincent of Lérins, a soldier who became a monk at the monastery in Lérins, and wrote his famous Commonitory in AD 434, three years after the third Ecumenical Council at Ephesus, and seventeen years before the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. Because Protestants generally accept both those [...]
Tags: Church Fathers, Development of Doctrine, Ecclesiology, Tradition
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Apr 26th, 2011 |
By J. Andrew Deane |
Category: Blog Posts
My eldest son is an altar boy. His job sometimes seems mostly symbolic, but there are times when I can tell that his work for the Church is important. In an Eastern parish, we have a clear delineation separating the altar from the rest of the church building. This stock photo from my church website [...]
Tags: Holiness, Liturgy, Tradition
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Feb 17th, 2011 |
By J. Andrew Deane |
Category: Blog Posts
The principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (which can be translated as “the law of praying is the law of believing”) has an immediate appeal to almost all Christians. It is easy to see that how we relate to God in prayer is a mirror-like reflection of our beliefs, and we sense intuitively that our [...]
Tags: Idolatry, mystery, paradox, Prayer, Soli Deo Gloria, Tradition, veneration
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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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Nov 19th, 2010 |
By Taylor Marshall |
Category: Blog Posts
One of the seven Old Testament books rejected by Martin Luther and subsequent Protestants was the book of Ecclesiasticus, alternatively known by its “Old Latin” title Sirach. The other books rejected by Protestantism are Judith, Tobit, Wisdom, Baruch, and 1 & 2 Maccabees. Ecclesiasticus/Sirach is found among the Dead Sea Scrolls (three copies to be [...]
Tags: Old Testament, Reformation, Sola Scriptura, The Canon, Tradition
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Nov 13th, 2010 |
By J. Andrew Deane |
Category: Blog Posts
On a recent feast in honor of the Mother of God, (I think it was the commemoration of her Dormition), my priest made a great point about Tradition as it is compared to Protestantism. Many times we as Catholics and Orthodox try to explain how it is that our honor which is given to the [...]
Tags: Chrysostom, Idolatry, Liturgy, Regulative Principle of Worship, Saints, Tradition
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