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Recent content by II Paradox II

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    What Church?

    While I am confesionally Reformed Baptist, I currently attend a PCA church primarily. ken
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    St. Vincent, Sola Scriptura and Tradition

    No problem, it's not a huge issue, just more of technicality anyways. ken
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    St. Vincent, Sola Scriptura and Tradition

    Carly - Are you sure your definition is accurate? It seems to me that it is contradicting article 77 & 78 of the latest catechism which does make a distinction between sacred tradition and scripture: 77 "In order that the full and living Gospel might always be preserved in the Church...
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    Contraception in Church Tradition

    Take a look at this thread and a few more on this board, they have a good conversation about this issue: http://p090.ezboard.com/fgregsdiscussionboardgodtalk.showMessage?topicID=3164.topic ken
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    St. Vincent, Sola Scriptura and Tradition

    I would agree, that definition is probably too narrow. A better way of describing the Roman approach is that [i]sacred tradition is the oral transmission of the apostolic doctrine in the succession of Bishops (articles 77 & 78 in the Catechism). At this point, I would argue that there is some...
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    St. Vincent, Sola Scriptura and Tradition

    BTW - you may also want to get a copy of "John Calvin: Student of the church fathers" by Anthony Lane. It's a very balanced (and thorough) study of Calvin's use of the church fathers and medieval theologians. If nothing else, it helps quite a bit to temper our tendency to read history...
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    Book Review: The Real Sola Scriptura

    For those interested in the topic, I would also suggest reading the section on scripture and tradition in Oberman's book, "The harvest of medieval theology". Mathison takes most of his framework from Oberman, so it helpful to read his treatment of the subject as well. Here is a quote from...
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    Debates?

    You may want to check out this site http://p090.ezboard.com/fgregsdiscussionboardgodtalk It has EO, Catholic and Reformed participants from a variety of perspectives. The level of discussion is higher than most you will find (though some of the disagrements can get heated at times as...
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    Hahn Envy

    As far as I remember he hasn't done any debates. I think he has said publically that he does not want to do any... ken
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    ECFs on the Role of the Pope

    I'm not Catholic or Orthodox, but from what I have seen the issue seems to be somewhat of a draw though I would weigh the evidence more for the Orthodox side. As someone else said, you can find hundreds of pages worth of patristic cites over this issue from both sides and there have been...
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    Hey!

    hello. I hope you enjoy your stay here. ken
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    What do About the Keys?

    At least for me, this is not suprising. In some ways, the CC is very consistent with history, but in many others it simply is not. Church history is a complex business and it does not mold itself very easily to anyone's claim of perfect consistency or succession of ideas. If you get the...
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    Things we have in common

    Or at least things that more Thomistic or Augustinian Catholics could agree upon. I would agree, however, that at least in this regard (regarding the soveriegnty of God over salvation) there is broad agreement with some sectors of Catholic theology. It's actually quite stunning to realize...
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    Fallen from Grace.......explain please

    I'd get ahold of this book if you can http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0815310765/qid=1086279070/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl14/104-5392043-5956753?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 You can't easily find it online, but you can probably get it from the library. The early church had a...
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    New Testament Apocrypha

    no, people have also tried to advocate for the canonicity of clement's letter to the corinthians, the didache and the shepard of hermas among others... ken
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