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October 05 2023 By dvirtue ON BEING AFFIRMING ISN'T LOVING

While it is inappropriate to speculate on the motives in each case, one thing both Stanley and the pope appear to share is a commitment to the therapeutic anthropology that pervades modern Western society and the implicit assumption that any significant challenge to this from a traditional Christian perspective is unloving or bigoted.

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September 27 2023 By dvirtue MALE OR FEMALE: THERE'S NOTHING IN BETWEEN

More than 99.9 percent of animal species that have developed since the emergence of male and female sexes reproduce sexually. And 95 percent of those animal species—including humans—have male and female sexes in separate individuals, whereby organisms are either male or female for their entire lives.

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September 09 2023 By dvirtue John Henry Newman: A Tortured Mind Who Attempted to Straddle Two Worlds

Likewise, Article 22 rejects the Romish doctrines of purgatory, worshipping and adoring images and relics, and praying to saints with "no warrant of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God." Newman was in a rush to interpret the Articles "in the most Catholic sense they will admit." The Protestant strategy to attack Tract 90 was simple: bring it to the attention of as many people as possible. Charles Golightly, Oxford's gadfly for Protestantism, wrote "Strictures on No.

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September 07 2023 By dvirtue COMPREHENDING THE LOVE OF GOD

As to the passage in question, the Apostle Paul prays for the believers in Ephesus that they may really know about the love of God. Given that this is found in the larger context of what starts a few verses earlier, let me offer that fuller text (verses 14-19) here:

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August 31 2023 By dvirtue English Reformers were Unashamed Moderate Calvinist

But after substantial consistency around the Settlement and the established formularies for the first generation of Anglicans, the anti-Calvinists, Arminians, established a foothold in the church and they have continued to dig in ever since.

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August 28 2023 By dvirtue MAINTAINING THE CLASSIC ANGLICAN TRADITION

Article VI. Holy Scripture contains all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of Faith or thought requisite or necessary to salvation. In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical books of the Old and New Testaments, of whose authority was never in any doubt in the Church.

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August 11 2023 By dvirtue WHAT HATH NEWMAN WROUGHT

According to Newman, the Oxford Movement was launched by a sermon in 1833 ("National Apostasy") in which John Keble fussed at the nation for not being more like the prophet Samuel. This was followed by a series of 90 "Tracts for the Times."

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August 09 2023 By dvirtue Edward VI: The Boy-King and the Protestant Reformation

There was not immediate enthusiastic agreement about these monumental changes, and there were some who were willing to fight and even die for the old Latin mass. But in the end, the Church of England upheld the Bible as its primary authority, guided by the Bible's central message of justification by grace through faith alone. It shifted focus from the Medieval sacerdotal priesthood to universal priesthood (of all believers).

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August 06 2023 By dvirtue No Golden Age of the Church -- The Book of Jude

Although Jude spends most of his letter talking about such ungodly people, his real focus is on "those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ" to "contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints." This is to be their focus. Yes, they are to watch out for those who have crept in unnoticed and who deny the Lord Jesus Christ.

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August 04 2023 By dvirtue THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH FATHERS

The fathers as individuals bequeathed to us much that is edifying, spiritually stimulating and interestingly and charmingly useful in our Christian nurturing, particularly those who have come to be regarded as the most significant and well-known as the "oft-quoted" in matters of pastoral concern and development of life in Christ. Many Protestant publications are raising the profile of the fathers in our time.

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