I recently ordered and read Dialogue Between an Orthodox and a Barlaamite by Gregory Palamas. For those who don’t know, Gregory Palamas is saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and probably their greatest theologian since the 1054 AD schism.
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Refuting Paul Williams on the Law
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFBc0zIw6Ec&t=2s
Muslim apologist Paul Williams has come out with a video where he tries to put Jesus Christ at odds with the apostle Paul in terms of the Mosaic law. In typical Paul Williams fashion he quotes his “Christian” liberal scholars. The scholars that he quotes are Catholic. I encourage everyone to watch my interview with Timothy Flanders to see what a true theologian is. The ones that Williams quoted don’t fit this bill.
Interview With Timothy Flanders
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Happy St. Patrick’s day! I know things aren’t too cheerful out there with the coronavirus but now is a good time to grow in the faith. Many people are isolating themselves and many that aren’t should. We shouldn’t go to unnecessary gatherings. This gives us a chance for prayer, holy reading, and a little Catholic YouTube. I recently interviewed Timothy Flanders who runs the website meaningofcatholic.com.
Faith and Politics with Jackie Chea
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I try to avoid politics as much as possible on this blog. I do that because the Catholic faith doesn’t mandate certain political views, save for a few key issues. About two weeks ago, I came to a shocking realization. Pretty much all of North America, South America, and Western Europe have been taken over by hordes of raging leftists. These leftists are super anti-Christian and are working to undermine the Church at every point.
Forget the Crusade Nonsense and Grow Up
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I really hate talking about issues like this because I expect better reasoning from Muslims and even from secularists. Muslims know that their religion spread by the sword and offensive conquests so they try and do one of two things. The first one is to say that it was defensive and the second one is moral equivalence. How are their expansions equivalent? Well, we have the crusades. If a Muslim ever brings this up again, here is how to answer him. I recently had to do this to some Muslim on Twitter who tried to justify Islamic conquests and say that Christians did similar things.
St. Cyril of Jerusalem and Sola Scriptura
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem
Many Protestant scholars such as James White and William Webster have tried to prove the doctrine of Sola Scriptura from the Church Fathers. I’m unimpressed with a lot of the quotes that they provide. The quotes stress the authority of Scripture. I certainly believe in the authority of Scripture, just not in the same way that they do. There are only a couple quotes from the Church Fathers that I believe can be used to support this doctrine. One of them(and the best one in my opinion) comes from the great fourth century father St. Cyril of Jerusalem.
Proper Catholic Dialogue with the Jews
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In the last few days there has been a Jew named Joshua who has been commenting on some old posts. He then went off-topic and demanded that I say whether I agree with certain publications by Dr. E. Michael Jones. Although I had referenced Dr. Jones in passing, the post wasn’t about him. In addition to that he said:
Interview With Derya Little
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On Thursday I had an interview with ex-Muslim turned Catholic Derya Little. There are a few reasons why I wanted to interview Little. The first was that I really enjoyed her book From Islam to Christ. I reviewed the book some time ago on this website.
Female Deacons or Female Demons?
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In the last few years there has been a surge in the demand for female deacons(or deaconesses) and surprisingly not just in the Catholic Church. I’ve read articles about certain Eastern and Oriental Orthodox jurisdictions that are experimenting with it. Liberal Protestant movements have been doing this for a long time and it has yielded anything but positive results.
Mary: Theotokos or Mother of a Prophet
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The Holy Theotokos
After contrasting the views of Zechariah in Surah 19 and the Gospel of Luke, we will now discuss the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the Christian tradition, the Virgin Mary is given the title Theotokos which literally translates as God bearer. In Greece to this day the Virgin Mary is referred to as the Theotokos. Members of the Eastern Orthodox Church who speak English as a first language refer to the Virgin Mary as Theotokos. An Arab friend of mine who was raised in the Antiochian Orthodox Church told me that in the Arabic liturgy they transliterate the Greek word into the prayers. The Russian Church refers to her as Bogoroditsa and I assume the other slavic churches use that or something similar. I’m not sure if the Georgians have their own word or use Theotokos. Greek Catholics use the word, and I would imagine that at least some Oriental Orthodox do as well.