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• Remissio Peccatorum in Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Justification: Did Aquinas Hold a Forensic View of Justification?

  Aquinas’ use of remissio peccatorum in his Aristotelian taxonomy of justification as the “remission of sins” has led some to conclude that ultimately he argues for…

• Thomas Aquinas on Justification :: Summa Theologica

  I have herein summarized and quoted from articles 1-10 of question 113 in the prima secunda of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica: “Of the Effects of Grace.”  I…

• Does Atheist Julian Baggini Consider the Strongest Counter Evidence? :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  I have so far offered mostly praise and appreciation for Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003), 119 pp.  In my last…

• Is Atheism Really a Positive Worldview? :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  I have so far offered almost nothing but praise and appreciation for Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003), 119 pp.  I…

• Can A Theist Appreciate Baggini’s Atheism? :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  In the year 2013, all my posts have been a summary of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003), 119 pp. …

• Concluding Remarks :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  Is Atheism the same as Humanism?  If not, what is the difference?  Who are the major atheist thinkers of history and what are some of…

• Against Religion? :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  What about arguments for the existence of God?  Are they sound? Is the faith of religious believers actually based on such rational arguments?  In our…

• Atheism in History :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  In our summary of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism, we have already covered how to better define atheism, explored his summary of the case for atheism,…

• Atheist Purpose and Meaning :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  We have examined how to better define atheism and the rational case for atheism according to author Julian Baggini.  In our last post, I summarized Julian Baggini’s own…

• Atheist Ethics :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  We have looked at how to better define atheism and the rational case for atheism.  In this post I will summarize Julian Baggini’s own summary of atheist ethics,…

• The Case for Atheism :: Book Review of Julian Baggini’s book Atheism: A Very Short Introduction

  In this post I will summarize Julian Baggini’s own summary of the case for atheism, presented in chapter 2 of his book Atheism: A Very Short…

• What is Atheism? :: A Book Review of Julian Baggini’s “Atheism: A Very Short Introduction”

  In the next few posts I will be both summarizing and reviewing a book designed to explain and defend Atheism.  The book is not written…

• John Chrysostom’s Interpretation of Romans 1:1-7 :: The Fathers of the Church

  I have summarized highlights of John Chrysostom’s interpretation of the introduction to the book of Romans.  I believe they foreshadow much of his interpretation of…

• A Criticism of Scholastic Theology from an Eastern Orthodox Believer

  Remember Francis Shaeffer?  The great evangelical apologist who, for example, helped galvanize evangelicals over the issue of abortion?  I ran across an old video of…

• The Unitarian Universalist Church: A Personal Encounter

  Who Are the Unitarian Universalists? It was a customary scene I have been familiar with since my own childhood: first-time visitor parking, greeters at the…

• John Hick (1922-2012): John Hick’s Philosophical Advocacy for Religious Pluralism

  **UPDATE: My research article has fluctuated from 3% to 6% in the top viewed trophies at Academia.edu. Famous British theologian and philosopher John Hick passed…

• A u d i o p o s t :: A Wake Up Call :: The Continuation of Human Slavery

  For those of us who tend to think of slavery as merely a historical evil (that is, an evil only to be studied from our…

• A u d i o p o s t :: The Great Questions

  The following audio is a book reading about “The Great Questions” from William Portier’s Tradition and Incarnation: Foundations of Christian Theology (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist…

• Do Catholics Practice Open Communion? :: The Case of Frère Roger

  Do Catholics practice open communion?  In the past, I would’ve answered this with a simple: No.  And perhaps on the local level for many Protestants…

• Book Review: Symbol & Sacrament: A Contemporary Sacramental Theology by Michael G. Lawler

  Lawler, G. Michael.  Symbol and Sacrament: A Contemporary Sacramental Theology.  Omaha, Nebraska: Creighton University Press, 1995.  293 pp. Two foundational principles guide our author in…