Why we are no longer Images of God
And Scripture testifies to this, when it says, Gen. 1:27, that man was fashioned in the image and likeness of God. What else is this than that there were embodied…
In Defense of Empire by ROBERT D. KAPLAN
Throughout history, governance and relative safety have most often been provided by empires, Western or Eastern. Anarchy reigned in the interregnums. To wit, the British may have failed in Baghdad,…
Why a Protestant can Accept the Eastern Orthodox Definition of an Ecumenical Council
I find some four characteristic features of an Ecumenical Synod here and there referred to by many authors…. 1. The chief distinguishing feature of all Ecumenical Synods is the fact…
In what sense is it possible to believe that the Holy Spirit guides the Catholic Church?
A Roman realises that infallible Magisteriums themselves in need of interpreting are more or less worthless… something which I’ve been saying for sometime already.
A Dialogue
Scharlach: You just said a moment ago that you define democracy as a system of governance in which individuals group together to decide on things that impact them directly. So…
The Tension in Protestant Sacramentology; Sign-Reality versus External Word
It is noteworthy that the Reformed confessions used to have an article on the Sacraments before dealing with the individual sacraments. The Lutheran Church has no dogma de sacramentis. In the Augsburg…