Pulished on November 21, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
(A response to a friend)
Well it’s a tough one, because those of a Greek orthodox persuasion are very into being Greek, and so the Greek theology is closely tied in with their sense of themselves and their thoughts of their own identity as a people. What I mean is, for them the fact that their […]
Pulished on July 24, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Five.
http://neiswonger.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/a-recent-spate-of-calvinism-part-four/”>Continued from Part Four.
“Now since one and the same grace may in one instance be efficacious, and in another inefficacious, it follows that the so-called gratia efficax must be conceived according to its essence as efficax ab extrinsico. In this conception there is no lessening of the dignity and […]
Pulished on July 2, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A Recent Spate of Calvinism. Part Four.
When you hear somebody that says they are a Calvinist say that man has no freewill, it’s hard to take that seriously. We all know that man has a will. The question is generally as to what man desires, not whether or not he does so. There has been […]
Pulished on June 26, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Three.
“Only lest any one should presume so to deny freedom of will, from a desire to excuse sin.” Augustine.
“Of our own we have nothing but sin.” Augustine.
Calvinism can make your head hurt. You get into all of the confusing little nooks and crannies of the Christian faith just to […]
Pulished on June 12, 2007 • Written by neiswonger
A recent spate of Calvinism. Part Two.
Sometimes when people read Aquinas they can get an inflated sense of his theological skill from the fact that they focus on ten percent of his work, being, his formulation of the Classical arguments for the existence of God, and tend to ignore the massive infusion of pagan philosophy […]