Thoughts of Francis Turretin
Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Real Francis Turretin on Faith and Reason

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The question is not whether reason is the instrument by which or the medium through which we can be drawn to faith. For we acknowledge that ...

Paradigm Puzzle for Jason Stellman

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Jason Stellman has claimed that one of his attractions to the Roman religion was that allegedly the Biblical authors said things that someon...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

The Real Francis Turretin on the Church in Relation to the Trinity

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The church is the primary work of the holy Trinity, the object of Christ’s mediation and the subject of the application of his benefits. (...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

"It is not Possible to find Jesus Outside the Church"

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Pope Francis in today's homily stated ( Vatican Radio translation ): And so the Church was a Mother, the Mother of more children, of man...
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Binding and Loosing - a "Matter of Interpretation"?

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Roman Catholics have the burden of establishing that there is some rule of faith outside Scripture.  One typical appeal (and one I recently ...

The Real Francis Turretin on Faith and Reason

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He does not therefore mean to take away reason entirely because grace does not destroy, but perfects nature. He only wishes it to serve and ...
Monday, April 22, 2013

C.S. Lewis on the Vatican Website - Priestesses and a Fourth Trinitarian Person?

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C.S. Lewis, in an article at the Vatican website, states: The Middle Ages carried their reverence for one Woman to a point at which the char...

2 Kingdoms in 2 Chronicles

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Some of the advocates of the so-called Escondido view of the two kingdoms (as distinct from the traditional view held by Calvin and Turretin...
Friday, April 19, 2013

One Bad Argument Against Roman Catholicism (with a good side point)

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In the linked article, there are two points ( link ). One point is the quite silly and worthless ad hominem argument that Benedict XVI was...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Pope John XX as the Test of Papal Infallibility and Apostolic Succession

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In the late 1950's and early 1960's there was a pope who took the name "John XXIII."  I get the sense that John XXIII is p...

Response to "Christmas Wars"

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Steve Hays has a post called "Christmas Wars," about objections to Christmas ( link to post ). As a non-celebrant of the day, I t...

Churchless Evangelicals

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R. Scott Clark has some serious and sobering words to "churchless evangelicals" ( part 1 ) ( part 2 ).  I actually wouldn't ag...

All Forms of Slavery?

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Thabiti Anyabwile and Doug Wilson have concluded their discussion, but in the conclusion section, Thabiti posted an item claiming it was a ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The Real Francis Turretin: The Supernatural Existence of Everything

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"All things are properly said to be … supernaturally through infinite power (as from the terminus a quo and by the way of creation)....

The Real Francis Turretin on Christ's Teaching Role

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“Christ is our only teacher (Matt. 23:8) in such a sense as that the ministry of the word is not thereby excluded, but necessarily included ...

Is There Any Evidence of Jesus' Resurrection?

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Someone recently kindly suggested a debate on the topic of "whether there is any evidence for Jesus' resurrection." The most s...

Echos of the Great Earthquake?

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In Matthew's gospel, we are treated to the only direct account of a remarkable resurrection: Matthew 27:51-53 And, behold, the veil of...

Didymus on Hell

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Didymus the Blind (c. 313 – 398) (aka Didymus of Alexandria) provided a number of commentaries, much of which seem to have been lost, largel...

Mary: Quasi-Incarnation of the Holy Spirit?

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A typical accusation against Roman Catholics is that they make Mary out to be virtually a fourth member of the Trinity, converting the Trini...
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Friday, April 12, 2013

The Works of John Witherspoon

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John Witherspoon is one signers of the Declaration of Independence, and was a minister and president of Princeton Seminary. I'm not a b...
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