Lutheranism: a Catholic Critique (Index Page for Dave Armstrong)

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Philip Melanchthon, Luther's successor and principal author of the Augsburg Confession, painted in 1532 by Lucas Cranach.

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Anti-Catholicism

John Calvin: a Catholic Appraisal  
Calvinism and General Protestantism: a Catholic Critique
Contra-Catholicism
Martin Luther: a Catholic Appraisal  
Persecution and Intolerance (Historic Protestant)  LUTHERANISM AND THE FATHERS 


Martin Luther and Other Protestant "Reformers" On the Assumption of Mary (+ Historic Lutheran Liturgical Celebration of the Assumption)
The Ambiguous Relationship of Luther and the Early Protestants to St. Augustine (with Dr. Edwin Tait)
Martin Luther's Views on St. Augustine and Other Church Fathers: Contradictions, Falsehoods, and Dishonesty (+ Does Lutheranism = the Early Church?)
Honor Thy Denominations Rather Than Thy Church Fathers? (Lutherans, Sola Scriptura, and the Fathers) (vs. "CPA" and Steve Parks)

Dialogue With a Lutheran on Whether Lutheranism or Catholicism is More Consistent With Patristic and Early Church Beliefs (+ Part II) (vs. Kristo Miettinen)

Dialogue on Lutheranism and the Church Fathers, Part III (vs. Kristo Miettinen)

Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Two: Church Fathers + Sola Scriptura (vs. Nathan Rinne)


Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Four:  Rule of Faith, the Fathers, and Ecclesiology (vs. Nathan Rinne)






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SOTERIOLOGY (THEOLOGY OF SALVATION AND JUSTIFICATION)

Dialogue With Four Lutherans on Practical Common Ground With Regard to Justification and Salvation

Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Three: Soteriology and Miscellany (vs. Nathan Rinne)

Dialogue With Four Lutherans Concerning Certain "Nestorianizing" Tendencies in the Lutheran Conception of Jesus' Descent Into Hell
2 Corinthians 5:21: Was Jesus Christ Literally Made Sin on the Cross? Did He Suffer the Horrors of Damnation? Luther and Calvin vs. the Church Fathers
Lutheranism vs. Catholicism (Particularly Regarding Original Sin and Faith Alone, and Including Extensive Catholic Commentary on the Book of Concord)
 
STICKING UP FOR LUTHERANS


ReformedCatholicism Revisits 16th c. "Sacramentarian" Controversies: Lutheran Pastor Paul McCain Lasts Eight Days as "Contributor"

Confessional Lutheran, Arminian, and Melanchthonian Soteriology Compared (Are Philip Melanchthon and Arminians Semi-Pelagians?) 
ReformedCatholicism.com Once Again Displays its Profound "Ecumenism" by Bashing Lutheranism






LUTHERANISM'S VIEW OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HEADED BY THE POPE 

Is Lutheranism Officially Anti-Catholic (The Book of Concord and the Catholic Mass)? (vs. "BWL")
Lutheran Pastor Paul T. McCain's Extreme Insults of Pope Benedict XVI and Catholics and Concealment of What St. Augustine Actually Taught About Salvation




LUTHERANISM AND MARY
"Why Are Catholics So Dogmatic About the Perpetual Virginity of Mary?" / Confessional Lutheran Agreement

The Annunciation: Does it Indicate that the Blessed Virgin Mary  is an Extraordinary Human Being, Chosen by God, and Already in a Sublime State of Grace? (Dialogue with a Lutheran, + Ridiculous and Groundless Personal Attacks Documented)


THE DEATH PENALTY FOR HERETICS / THEFT OF CATHOLIC CHURCH PROPERTY 

Lord Acton on Melanchthon and Persecution of Heretics for Denial of the Real Presence and Various Other Crimes
Quick Survey of Luther's and Lutheranism's Historic Scandals and "Skeletons in the Closet"

Philip Melanchthon's Advocacy of the Death Penalty For Denial of the Eucharistic Real Presence and His Later "Crypto-Calvinist" Eucharistic Position[s]
Dialogue on Melanchthon and the Death Penalty for Denial of the Real Presence (+ Part II) (vs. Dr. Edwin Tait)

Dialogue on 16th-Century Christians and Religious Tolerance (With Attempted Analogies to Communists, Muslims, and Pagan Romans) (vs. "CPA")
Dialogue on 16th Century Religious Toleration and Theft of Church Properties (vs. "CPA")

Lutheran Josh S. Attempts to Rationalize and Justify the Wholesale Plunder, Theft, and Confiscation of the Protestant "Reformation"







ECCLESIOLOGY / CATHOLIC-LUTHERAN DISCUSSION



On the Title Lutheran / My Respect For Lutherans
On the Curious Scarcity (Online) of Distinctively Lutheran Apologetics
Philip Melanchthon in 1530 Longs For the Return of the Jurisdiction of Catholic Bishops / His Agonized Tears Over Protestant Divisions and Dissensions
Reply to Two Lutheran Pastors on Fundamental Misconceptions Regarding the Catholic Position on the Death Penalty (Including an Examination of the Lutheran "Two Kingdoms" Model of Church and State) 

Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Four:  Rule of Faith, the Fathers, and Ecclesiology (vs. Nathan Rinne)

Reply to Lutheran Scholar Gene Edward Veith on Catholic Mariology and its Biblical Basis

Exchange with a Lutheran on a Lutheran Blog Controversy, Lutheranism, and the Foibles of Anti-Catholic Polemicist John Q. "Deadhead" Doe / Doe's Site Continues to Host Many "Pope Benedict is a Pantheist" Papers

Biblical Evidence for Submission to Church Authority and Apostolic Tradition / Biblical Condemnation of the Rebellion of the Protestant Revolt


How Much of the Bible do Lutheran Pastors Preach About?
Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue on Corpus Christi (Eucharistic Processions and Adoration)
Zwingli, Bucer, and Oecolampadius Said Martin Luther and Lutherans Weren't Christians
Did Pastor Paul T. McCain (LCMS) Compare Lutheran Pastors Who Become Catholic or Orthodox, to Judas Iscariot?
Why I am a Catholic / Why I am a Lutheran / The Protestant Myth of Origins (vs. Eric Phillips)
Dialogue With a Lutheran Inquirer, on Lutheran-Catholic Differences
Philip Melanchthon's Agony Over the Sectarianism of Early Protestantism / Little-Known Derivation of the Term "Protestant"
Lutheran (LCMS) Contra-Catholic Rev. Paul T. McCain Greatly Admired the Late Fr. Richard John Neuhaus (Hope for Ecumenism Springs Eternal!)






LUTHERAN-CATHOLIC DIALOGUE

(WITH PASTORS LARRY NICHOLS AND BEN MATON [LCMS] )
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Pastor Larry Nichols


Lutheran-Catholic Group Dialogue Commences: Introductions 
Lutheran-Catholic Group Dialogue #2: The Nature of the True Church and Authoritative Christian Tradition / Questions on Institutional Separation
Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue #3: Comparative Ecclesiology / Grace and Merit / Lutheran View of the Mass Compared to the Catholic View of Lutheran Worship
Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue #4: "Tragic Necessity" of Reform / Indulgences / Nominalism / Causes of Schism / Luther on "Papists" / Fathers' Authority
Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue #5: "Antichrist": Is He the Pope or Office of the Papacy? (Johnny Montalvo)

 LUTHERAN-CATHOLIC DIALOGUE

(WITH APOLOGIST NATHAN RINNE)
Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part One: Introductory (vs. Nathan Rinne)


Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Two: Church Fathers + Sola Scriptura (vs. Nathan Rinne)


Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Three: Soteriology and Miscellany (vs. Nathan Rinne)


Dialogue on Lutheranism and Catholicism, Part Four:  Rule of Faith, the Fathers, and Ecclesiology (vs. Nathan Rinne)

EARLY LUTHERAN "ECUMENISM" AND TOLERANCE (?)

The Real Diet of Augsburg (Protestant Intolerance in 1530)
Calvinist Iconoclasm Against Lutherans and Lutheran Liturgical and Material Suppression (By Outright Theft) of Catholics
John Calvin Disses Lutheranism, Describes it as "Evil" and Worse Than Catholicism In Its Persecutions of Calvinists
The Early Protestants Were Ecumenical? NOT! (+ Part II) (vs. Dr. Paul Owen)
Zwingli, Bucer, and Oecolampadius Said Martin Luther and Lutherans Weren't Christians

The Protestant Inquisition ("Reformation" Intolerance and Persecution)

The Protestant Revolt: Its Tragic Initial Impact





PHILIP MELANCHTHON




My Critical Remark About Philip Melanchthon Backed up By Biographer Clyde Manschreck

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon Wax Astronomical, Geocentric, and Aristotelian, Putting the Pernicious "Fool" Copernicus in His Place

The Strong Enthusiasm For Astrology of Early Lutheran Luminaries Philip Melanchthon and Martin Chemnitz

Divisions Actually Scandalized Melanchthon and Other Early Protestants Like Calvin and Luther




CRITIQUE OF MARTIN CHEMNITZ' EXAMEN
Martin Chemnitz is "The Man" for Lutherans; It's Time to Address His Arguments Directly
Critique of Martin Chemnitz' Examination of Trent: Scripture I (Poisoning the Well as to the Catholic Rule of Faith and Veneration of Holy Scripture)
Critique of Martin Chemnitz' Examination of Trent: Bible, Tradition, and the Church Fathers, Part I (Preliminaries, St. Irenaeus, and Tertullian)

Critique of Martin Chemnitz' Examination of Trent: Bible, Tradition, and the Church Fathers, Part II (Various Fathers and Arguments)
Critique of Martin Chemnitz' Examination of Trent: Soteriology and Justification in the Church Fathers
MISCELLANEOUS
ELCA (Lutheran Body) Votes to Allow Noncelibate Homosexual Clergy
Prayer for the Dead: Lutheran Pastor (LCMS) Defends it from Scripture, Citing the Pauline Example of Onesiphorus

Quibble About Lutheran Dislike of the Term Consubstantiation and the Absence of a More Descriptive Word


Michele Bachmann: Anti-Catholic?


LUTHERAN CONFESSIONAL WRITINGS ONLINE



The Book of Concord (1580)
Book of Concord Search Engine

Augsburg Confession (1530) [alternate translation]

Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531)
The Smalcald Articles (1537)

Project Wittenberg: Electronic Texts By and About Martin Luther and Lutherans (alternate URL)

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Last Updated: 10 November 2011



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