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The Awful Division of Christians pt. 2: Survey of Divisions
In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen. Suscipe, Sancte Pater. In our first article on this subject, we laid out a framework for assessing and judging Christian division. We said that on the one hand, truth should always be a dividing factor, separating truth from falsehood, and must lead to tragic but necessary […]
Sanctity: the Whole Basis for and Telos of Christian Unity (and all of Christian life, especially dogma)
May 28, 2012
In Nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti, amen. Suscipe, Sancte Pater. Wondrous is God in his Saints, the God of Israel. The purpose of the Church is to worship God. In order to worship Him truly, we must become Saints—to subject our whole being to Him in worship. When Christians do this, there is […]
The Prodigal Family Part Three: the elder son
February 12, 2012
Please read the introduction. The Orthodox Church and Ecumenism In its address to the emperor in 681, the Sixth Ecumenical Council assembled at Constantinople declared that it was assembled and promulgated according to a customary cooperation between Emperor and Pope. It cited the work of Emperor St. Constantine and Pope St. Sylvester in calling Nicaea […]
The Prodigal Family Part Two: the father
February 12, 2012
Please read the introduction. Caput: that the Roman Catholic Ecuemenical Shift of Vatican II might be understood as the movement of the ‘prodigal father’ to the ‘prodigal son’ …and he would fain have filled his belly with the slop that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to […]
The Prodigal Family Part One: the younger son
February 12, 2012
Please read the introduction. Caput: that the ecumenical movement among Protestants represents a rapprochement with their Father, by reconstructing the unifying elements of Christendom When Hillaire Belloc wrote that the Protestant Reformation had caused the corporate, communal nature of the Corpus Christianum within Europe to erode into the an “isolation of the soul,” he stated […]
The Prodigal Family: one possible way of understanding Christian division
February 12, 2012
A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted […]
Luther, Descartes, and Lady Gaga
November 21, 2011
[This is a revision from its first draft, which the comments below apply to] Caput: that the epistemology of the so-called ‘Enlightenment’ solidifies the philosophical underpinnings of the Sola Scriptura world view and leads to modern secularism I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—I have […]
That in the Radical Reformers God gave the Protestant Reformers clear fruit of their doctrines which they did not heed
November 8, 2011
“And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out […]
The breakthrough of Lima 1982
October 24, 2011
Caput _: that the Lima document of 1982 illustrates the need for universal primacy but at the same time represents a real ecumenical breakthrough. By the time of the awful fratricide of the First World War, the worship of nations had degenerated into such a baseness that the youth of many nations marched to war […]
The deplorable excess of Henry VIII and the beginning of Anglicanism
October 24, 2011
Caput I: That the division of Christendom hangs upon the permanent union between flesh and spirit In the former book we briefly sketched, to the best of our feeble abilities, God helping us, an outline of the problem of the unity of man and its solution through the institution of the Body of Christ. We […]
August 27, 2012
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