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Nature, Grace, and Man’s Supernatural End: Feingold, Kline, and Clark

September 26th, 2011

On September 21, Professor Lawrence Feingold of Ave Maria University’s Institute for Pastoral Theology and author of The Natural Desire to See God According to St. Thomas and his Interpreters gave a lecture titled “The Natural Desire to See God and Man’s Supernatural End” to the Association of Hebrew Catholics. The audio recordings of the […]



Lawrence Feingold on Freedom of the Will

April 15th, 2011

Two days ago, Professor Lawrence Feingold of Ave Maria University’s Institute for Pastoral Theology and author of The Natural Desire to See God According to St. Thomas and his Interpreters gave a lecture titled “The Freedom of the Will” to the Association of Hebrew Catholics. The audio recordings of the lecture and of the following […]



Lawrence Feingold on the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the Ministerial Priesthood

February 8th, 2010

Dr. Lawrence Feingold Two weeks ago, Lawrence Feingold of the Institute for Pastoral Studies at Ave Maria University, presented a teaching on the Catholic doctrine of the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the ministerial priesthood, at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. The audio of this teaching is available below, in two parts, each about […]



The Obscurity of Scripture

November 26th, 2023

Earlier this year, Called to Communion editor Casey Chalk published his second book, The Obscurity of Scripture, a critical assessment of the Protestant doctrine of perspicuity, a doctrine that was central to the story of Casey’s reversion to the Catholic faith in 2010. The article below briefly summarizes the arguments contained in The Obscurity of […]



A Response to Steven Nemes’s “Why Remain Protestant?”

November 1st, 2021

Steven Nemes is a Protestant theologian and phenomenologist who teaches Latin at North Phoenix Prep, a Great Hearts Academy. He is also an adjunct professor at Grand Canyon University. He received his Ph.D. in Theology in 2021 from Fuller Theological Seminary. This fall Steven has uploaded two videos in which he argues that Protestants should […]



The Catholic Feminine Part II – Philosophy

August 22nd, 2019

In this second part of our four-part series on the Christian feminine, I will explore the proper role of philosophy in relation to theology. I will also define certain terms that I have been using, thereby increasing our philosophical precision. This will enable us to contrast the proper philosophical Christian tradition against philosophical errors both […]



Authentic and Inauthentic Reform: A Brief Response to Reformanda Initiative’s “Is the Reformation Over: A Statement of Evangelical Convictions”

November 3rd, 2016

I was asked to respond to an article from Reformanda Initiative posted recently on The Gospel Coalition site. The article is titled “Is the Reformation Over? A Statement of Evangelical Convictions.” The full “statement,” which some evangelicals have signed, is located here at “isthereformationover.com.” For readers who may be unfamiliar with Reformanda Initiative, this is […]



Catholic and Reformed Understandings of “He Descended into Hell”

April 4th, 2015

Why are the Catholic and Reformed positions different regarding the meaning of the line in the Apostles’ Creed “He descended into hell,” and how can we stake steps toward resolving this disagreement? To approach those questions I consider and briefly engage below the writings of R. Scott Clark and Rick Phillips on this subject, in […]



Trueman, Lent, and Reformed Catholicity

February 16th, 2015

In the Latin Rite liturgical calendar, this Wednesday (February 18) is Ash Wednesday, and marks the beginning of Lent, that forty-day period of fasting and abstinence in which we prepare for Easter. One intention for which we can fast and pray this Lent is the reunion of all Christians. Oddly enough, however, Lent is precisely […]



Do We Really Meet Christ in the Sacraments?

September 9th, 2014

Catholics and some non-Catholic Christians disagree about the nature of the sacraments. Are they merely signs? Do they really conform us to Christ?