The following is a response from David King to Taylor Marshall's comments on the earlier Erasmus thread ( link to Mr. Marshall's com...

The Scriptures are a sufficient standard to remove error from the church, but they are not the mechanism by which error is removed from the ...

Here is an interesting article about a pottery fragment with inscribed words found near the place that is thought to be the site of David...

C. Michael Patton has a new post entitled, Calvinism and the Divine Decrees – Correcting a Misunderstanding . Unfortunately, Patton's p...

Erasmus wrote: What weight the authority of the church may have with others, I know not; but with me it weighs so much, that I could be of t...

In a previous post ( link ) we saw that Aquinas indicated that it was possible for the universal church to define doctrine in some sense. T...

Thanks to a passage I was reading in Cyril of Alexandria's commentary on Isaiah, I noticed the following connection. Within Isaiah'...

Here's one or two points where Aquinas differs from modern Reformed believers: As Augustine says (Ep. xliii) and we find it stated in th...

Calvinism is sometimes accused of turning men into robots or puppets. Scoffers refer to Calvinism as "puppet theology" or "r...

Thomas Aquinas believed that (at least in certain circumstances) the universal church could not err. If we define the universal church as ...

Dr. Greg Bahnsen's lecture by the above title is now available thanks to the transcription by Pastor David King and the editing of James...

The Old Testament Hebrew Massoretic, Greek Septuagint (LXX), Latin Vulgate, and Luther German texts, in four columns; the New Testament in G...

Bellisario writes: "I have recently been working on a response to Turretin Fan's absurd abuse of the Angelic Doctor's works con...

This is an index post for posts that are primarily about Aquinas (other posts that touch on Aquinas and posts that are more recent than the ...

We've previously seen Aquinas talking about the primacy and sufficiency of Scripture. In the following quotation, we see Aquinas statin...

One of the key texts in the discussion of Aquinas and the primacy of Scripture is as follows: "Formale autem obiectum fidei est veritas...

Please note that over the next few days you may see a flood of previously unpublished comments being released. In some cases, I held the co...

Is the Roman Catholic Magisterium More Sufficient than Sacred Scripture? Bryan Cross answered on the subject of the ability of the Scripture...

I notice that David at Pious Fabrication is accusing Calvinism of being Gnostic because it is Augustinian ( link ). David answers the ques...

There's no reason to think it was Jesus' residence, but if there were any skeptics out there who thought to themselves, "Nazare...