Author: ryan
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On God’s Word Alone by Matthew Barrett
In God’s Word Alone, author Matthew Barrett aims to articulate, clarify, reason for, and reinforce the original meaning and current importance of the Reformation doctrine, Sola Scriptura. Broadly speaking the doctrine of sola Scriptura asserts that Scripture alone is the ultimate authoritative, magisterial authority in the life of the believers and the catholic (universal) church,…
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Covenantal Apologetics Explained from Biblical, Philosophical, and Theological Standpoints
Covenantal apologetics is an apologetical approach which, in its argumentation, presupposes the truth of the nature of God, his Word, and reality itself as revealed by God through Christ and in Scripture. Covenantal apologetics sits in contrast to an evidential approach, which seeks to use empirical observations or data as common ground in order to…
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The Noetic Effects of the Fall
This may prove helpful for anyone engaging with unbelievers, particularly atheists who emphasize rationality and scientific evidence of a narrow sort. The noetic effects of the Fall refer to mankind’s active suppression of their knowledge of God and his truth. As it goes, there is something internal that attests to God as well as something…
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On Knowledge and Knowing God, a Critical Response to the 1st Vatican Council
Consider the statement below: “The Catholic Church, with one consent, has also ever held and does hold that there is a two-fold order of knowledge, distinct both in principle and also in object; in principle, because our knowledge, in the one, is by natural reason, and, in the other, is by Divine faith; in object,…
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The View from the Sea
I want to remember this moment. It’s that period of ignorance—or, innocence—when you are about to learn a new thing by doing it while not having a clue how to start. For me in this moment that thing is writing fiction. I’m staring at a mountain peak from my metaphorical back deck, longing to see…