Calvinism and General Protestantism: a Catholic Critique (Index Page for Dave Armstrong)

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CALVINISM


CALVINISM AND ST. AUGUSTINE


St. Augustine's Acceptance of the Seven Catholic Sacraments
St. Augustine: Are Reformed Protestants or Catholics Closer Theologically to His Teaching?




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SACRAMENTS: ESPECIALLY BAPTISM AND THE EUCHARIST

ReformedCatholicism Revisits 16th c. "Sacramentarian" Controversies: Lutheran Pastor Paul McCain Lasts Eight Days as "Contributor"  Quiz on Early Protestant Disharmony Regarding Eucharistic Beliefs
St. Augustine's Acceptance of the Seven Catholic Sacraments

Calvinist Confusion and Contradictions Concerning Election, Valid Baptism, and Whether Catholics are "Brothers in Christ" or Slaves to Satan







[image error] Benjamin Warfield (1851-1921)


PREDESTINATION, SUPRALAPSARIANISM, SOVEREIGNTY, SOTERIOLOGY


Supposed Contradiction Between 2 Samuel 24 and 1 Chronicles 21 (God or Satan as Cause?)
Baptist Pastor Ken Temple Proves That St. Paul Was a Blasphemer Who Claimed That People Can Save Others (Mariology and Synergistic Soteriology)  Great Calvinist Post About Assurance of Salvation and the Extreme Fundamentalistic "Faith Alone" Position of Virtual Antinomianism
Calvinist and Arminian Witnessing: A Lighthearted Humorous Diversion (With All Due Respect) [You Tube parodies]
Biblical Evidence Against Limited Atonement (25 Passages)
Calvinist "Turretinfan" Sez That God "Wants" Men to Sin; "Ordains" It
On the Alleged Contradictions of 2 Samuel 24, and 1 Chronicles 21 and 27 (vs. the atheist "DagoodS")
Did God Harden Pharaoh's Heart? (Does God Positively Ordain Evil?) (vs. [atheist] "DagoodS")
Reply to a Calvinist Critique Concerning the "Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart" (vs. Colin Smith)
Dialogue With a Calvinist on Whether Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, and Irresistible Grace Are True (I.e., Biblical) and Also Part of the Gospel
Dialogue With a Calvinist on Whether God Predestines the Damned to Hell From All Eternity, Limited Atonement, and Total Depravity (Tons of Scripture!)
Biblical Evidence Against Double Predestination From Lack of Parallelism in Descriptive Terms for the Damned + Non-Calvinist Exegesis of Romans 9
Martin Luther: God is the Author of Evil and Hates Some Men Eternally / Horse and Rider Analogy / No Free Will / Everything (+ Damnation) is Predetermined
Dialogue With a Calvinist on Whether it is Possible to Fall Away from Grace or Salvation
Judas as One of the "Elect" and "Elect Angels": Biblical Conundrum for Calvinists?


TOTAL DEPRAVITY

The Calvinist Doctrine of Total Depravity and Romans 3:10-11 ("None is Righteous . . . No One Seeks For God"): Reply to James White  Fallacious Calvinist Arguments For Total Depravity: Does Romans 1 Apply Universally to Fallen Man?
Dialogue With a Calvinist on Whether Total Depravity, Limited Atonement, and Irresistible Grace Are True (I.e., Biblical) and Also Part of the Gospel
Dialogue With a Calvinist on Whether God Predestines the Damned to Hell From All Eternity, Limited Atonement, and Total Depravity (Tons of Scripture!)
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OTHER CALVINISTIC "REFORMERS"

The "Moderate" Heinrich Bullinger: More Evidence of Rabid Anti-Catholicism in the Protestant Founders
Huldreich Zwingli: Protestant "Reformer", Open Fornicator, and Vow-Breaker  Protestant Founder Zwingli Denied Original Sin
Mary the Mother of God (Theotokos): Explanation and Espousal by Protestant Founders Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger
Zwingli's Belief in Mary's Sinlessness 
Protestant "Reformer" Theodore Beza (1519-1605): His Clandestine Marriage or "Secret Engagement"
Protestant "Reformer" Martin Bucer Advocated Death for Adulterers
Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger Regarded Statues of Christ and Crucifixes as Idols (Calvin Also Rejected Bare Crosses)


ECCLESIOLOGY
Dialogue With a Calvinist on Paul's Apostolic Calling and Infallible (?) Church Authority (and the "Dichotomous" Protestant Tendency of Thought)

ECUMENISM

Diet of Regensburg (1541) and Colloquy of Poissy (1561): Protestant "Ecumenical" Efforts at Christian Unity?
Thoughts on Catholicity and Ecumenism (Reply to Reformed Pastor Tim Gallant)
ReformedCatholicism Revisits 16th c. "Sacramentarian" Controversies: Lutheran Pastor Paul McCain Lasts Eight Days as "Contributor"  Quiz on Early Protestant Disharmony Regarding Eucharistic Beliefs
Critique of the ReformedCatholicism.com Blog and Theological Worldview
The Early Protestants Were Ecumenical? NOT! (+ Part II) (vs. Dr. Paul Owen)
S. Joel Garver's On The "Catholic Question" (Excerpts with Commentary by Dave Armstrong)
I Like and Appreciate "Reformed Catholicism" a Lot, BUT . . . (with Fr. Al Kimel, then a traditional Anglican priest; now a Catholic)






Charles Hodge (1797-1878)


ICONOCLASM AND INTOLERANCE


The Early Protestant Attitude Towards Art and Strong Iconoclastic Tendency
Calvinist Iconoclasm Against Lutherans and Lutheran Liturgical and Material Suppression (By Outright Theft) of Catholics
Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger Regarded Statues of Christ and Crucifixes as Idols (Calvin Also Rejected Bare Crosses)
Calvin, Calvinism, and Violent Iconoclasm
Discussion With a Reformed Protestant (Catholic) on Art, Early Protestantism, and Catholic Corruption (vs. Kevin Johnson)
The Protestant Inquisition ("Reformation" Intolerance and Persecution)
The Protestant Revolt: Its Tragic Initial Impact



[over 100 pages critiquing Calvinism from Scripture]


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APOLOGETIC METHOD (PRESUPPOSITIONALISM)


Brief Critique of Tim Enloe's Presuppositionalism (Open Letter) (vs. Tim Enloe)
Critique of Presuppositionalist Christian Apologetics (Specifically the Van Tillian Version) (vs. Tim Enloe)
Reply to Greg Bahnsen's Defense of Presuppositional Method and Critique of Evidentialism: "Evangelism and Apologetics" (vs. Dr. Greg Bahnsen)
Dialogue With a Reformed Baptist Presuppositionalist (vs. John Knight)
Dialogue With a Reformed Baptist Presuppositionalist, Round Two (vs. John Knight)
Dialogue With a Reformed Baptist Presuppositionalist, Round Three (vs. John Knight)
"Blackwhite": James White Proves That R.C. Sproul's Critique of Presuppositionalism is "Utter Epistemological Confusion" and "Wild Swings at a Phantom"
More James White Orwellian "Doublethink": Greg Bahnsen Thought R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner Were Exceedingly Stupid Too, Regarding Presuppositionalism
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Debate on the Perspicuity (Clarity) of the Bible (February 2000)
Dialogue on Church Authority and Epistemological "Certainty" (The "Infallibility Regress") (July 2000)
Dialogue on the Meaning and Consequences of Private Judgment (November 2000)
Dialogue on Apostolic Succession and the Definitions of "Protestant" and "Church" (November 2000)
Dialogue on Cardinal Newman's Development of Doctrine: "Evolution" or an Increasing Complexity of Understanding of Essential Unchanging Elements? (January 2001) 
Dialogue: The Fatal Flaws of Protestantism Start at the Foundation and Roots (January 2001)

"Live Chat" Debate on Presuppositions, Private Judgment, Patristic Consensus, and Development of Doctrine (January 2001)

Dialogue on Cardinal Newman's Development of Doctrine: "Evolution" or an Increasing Complexity of Understanding of Essential Unchanging Elements? (January 2001)

Dialogue on Martin Luther: All-Conquering Hero or Anti-Catholic Heel? (February 2001)

Response to Tim Enloe's Counter-Reply on the Matter of Private Judgment (October 2001)

The Layman's Use of Greek Bible Reference Books: Reply to an Exceedingly Strange and Ironic Objection From Presbyterian Tim Enloe (January 2002)

Debate on the Philosophical Premises of Cardinal Newman's Views on Doctrinal Development and Religious Belief (October 2002)
Dialogue on Catholic vs. Protestant Ecclesiologies (June 2003)
Polemicist Tim Enloe's Potshots Against Catholic Apologists and Catholics and Insistence That Protestantism Was Not a Revolt (May 2003 Edition) (June 2003) 
Protestant Epistemology and Authority Structures Are Always Ultimately Self-Defeating (September 2003)
Debate on Private Judgment: Its Meaning and How it is Viewed by Protestants and Catholics (December 2003)
Was Conciliarist Ecclesiological Theory an "Orthodox" Option in Mediæval Catholicism? (Critique of the Central Premise of Tim Enloe's Fabled "Thesis") (+ Part Two) (January 2004)
Hard Questions for Tim Enloe's Theories of Medieval Ecclesiology, and Non-Answers ("Fallibilist Conciliarism"?) (January 2004)
Dialogue: Is the Vatican I Proclamation of Papal Infallibility Non-Negotiable and Orthodox or "Radical Papal Tyranny" and the Triumph of Ultramontanism? (March 2004)
Tim Enloe's Amazing Meetings With the Ghosts of Ockham and Plato! (May 2003 / revised April 2004)
Tim Enloe's Missing Definition of "Orthodoxy" and the Logical Circularity of His Thesis on Conciliar Ecclesiology (May 2004)
Council of Constance (1414-1418): Triumph of Conciliarism or its Kiss of Death? (May 2004)
More Absurd Enlovian Miscellany, Catholic- and Newman-Bashing, and Further Defense of My Critique of His Thesis Regarding Heretical Conciliarism (October 2004) 
Questions and Answers on Cardinal Newman's Philosophical and Epistemological Commitments (Contra Tim Enloe) (October 2004)
Dialogue on Current Evangelical Anti-Catholicism, Whether Luther and Calvin Were Anti-Catholics, and on the Mass (is it a Christian Service?) (November 2004) 
Trent a Radical Corruption of What it Coulda or Woulda Been, So Sez Tim Enloe (August 2005) 
Fictional Dialogue on Sola Scriptura With a "Reformed Catholic" Protestant (Greatly Resembling Tim Enloe) (November 2005)
The Sham Ecumenism and "Reformed Catholicism" of Tim Enloe (December 2005)
Heretic Popes and Pope as "God on Earth" vs. Luther as God's Man of the Hour and Quasi-Prophet (December 2007)
Clarification On What I Consider "Biblical Evidence" (February 2008)
"Reformation" Theft of Catholic Church Properties and Supposed Catholic Apologetic "Blind Spots": Counter-Response to Tim Enloe (April 2008)
Presbyterian Polemicist Tim Enloe's Pathetic Elitism and Snobbishness Over Against Laymen and Apologetics and Non-Academic Study is Revealed Yet Again (June 2009) 
My Criticisms of Tim Enloe's Modus Operandi and Excoriation of Catholic Converts Discussed At Length on His Blog, While I Am Banned (June 2009)
Reformed Polemicist Tim Enloe's Criticism of Reformed Fundamentalists Regarding Scripture Alone Also Applies to Luther and Calvin (June 2009)
Tim Enloe's Ongoing Policy of Hiding and Deleting the Absurdities and Outrageousness of His Past Comments, Rather Than Openly Retracting Them (June 2009)
Tim Enloe's Latest Quasi-Anti-Catholic Remarks: Catholicism is "Gnostic", "Utterly Subjective", "Stupid", Dishonest About History, Etc. (June 2009)

Sweeping Attacks From Presbyterian Polemicist Tim Enloe, on Catholic Converts, Catholic Apologists, and Protestant Charismatics (Like He Used to Be) (June 2009) 

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Martin Luther: Catholic Critical Analysis and Praise (2008, 264 pages)
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PROTESTANTISM (General)
THE PROTESTANT WORLDVIEW SCRUTINIZED

Questions and Answers: Concerning Catholicism, Over Against Protestantism (Transcript of a Television Interview)
The Catholic "Both/And" vs. the Protestant "Either/Or" Dichotomous Mindset
Answers to a Barrage of Common Protestant Criticisms Against Catholicism
Catholicism and the Two "Pillars" of Protestantism (Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide)
Why I Sometimes Write About "Bad" and Scandalous Stuff Concerning Early Protestant Leaders (aka "Reformers")
Comments on the Question: "Are Protestants Heretics?"
Catholic Critique of Anglicanism
Leading Anti-Catholic Phillip Johnson Sez Today's Evangelicalism Is "Much Worse" Than Pre-Luther Catholicism
Revised Fundamentalist Baptist Version (RFBV)
Early Protestantism and the Decline of Education

Some Things Never Change: Reformed Theologian R.L. Dabney's 1894 Analysis of Protestant Defections to Catholicism and Protestant-Catholic Differences

Bill Hybels' Frank Admission That the "Seeker Sensitive" Willow Creek Movement Has Failed to Produce Good Christian Disciples

Protestant Critiques of Joel Osteen's False Teachings [Links Page]

Biblical Evidence for Submission to Church Authority and Apostolic Tradition / Biblical Condemnation of the Rebellion of the Protestant Revolt
Short Dialogue on the Definition of "Fundamentalist"
Anglican Anti-Traditional Principles of "Development" and the "Cult of Uncertainty" (vs. Dr. Edwin Tait)Response to Rev. Michael Pahls on "Theological Humility" and the Protestant "Non-Quest" Regarding Christian CertaintyCritique of Bedrock (Self-Defeating) Protestant Principles of Authority

What Is An "Evangelical"? Can Catholics be Described by the Broader Adjective [Lower-Case] "evangelical"?

Calvinist and Arminian Witnessing: A Lighthearted Humorous Diversion (With All Due Respect) [You Tube parodies]
The Protestant Revolt: Its Tragic Initial Impact
Protestantism: Conceptual and Developmental Errors
Refutation of the Myth of Alleged Protestant Origination of Most of What is Good in Western Culture  Glorying in Uncertainty: a Peculiar Post-Enlightenment Protestant Phenomenon (Dialogue With a Calvinist)
The Influence of William of Ockham and Nominalism on Martin Luther and Early Protestant Thought
Response to the Contra-Catholic Arguments of Protestant Pastor Bill Keller

Reply to Various Common Questions From Protestants About the Catholic Church
Presuppositions and Patterns of Thought Common to Both Protestantism and Secularism (A Sociological and Philosophical Analysis of the Success and Popularity of Evangelical Protestantism, by an Anonymous Observer)
DENOMINATIONALISM AND SECTARIANISM

Compelling Biblical Evidence Against Denominations and "Primary vs. Secondary" Doctrines [now available only in my book, The One-Minute Apologist]

Fabulous and Insightful Visual Satire on the Folly of Denominationalism

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


Denominationalism and Sectarianism
33,000 Protestant Denominations?
Protestant Civil Wars Are Alive and Well (Can a Leopard Change Its Spots?)
Reply to C. Michael Patton on Sola Scriptura, Part Six (Divisions)

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


Last Updated: 9 November 2011



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