From my days at Princeton Theological Seminary, I believed in the authority of the early Church to speak definitively on the content of the Christian faith. I had no doubt that the Councils of Nicaea and Chalcedon spoke with the authority of the Holy Spirit. What I had not thought about much was what happened to that authority in the centuries since.
I wrote anti-Catholic tracts and opened a post office box with the intent of distributing them. I spent long hours in the library researching local Catholic history compiling a “spiritual map” of my community…I marked each Catholic church with an “X”.
The founder of The Coming Home Network discusses his conversion from being a Presbyterian pastor.
“The more we studied, the more the beauty, majesty, weight and history of the whole of the Christian world seemed to open up to us. We had not really left our core beliefs behind at all – indeed we love and greatly appreciate what we had been given in our Presbyterian communities – we had only fleshed them out in a real sense.”
One Sunday many years ago I was standing in my pulpit preparing to preach. I had done my homework, spending nearly ten hours in prayer, study and exegesis, consulting all the
Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set. (Prov. 22:28 RSV) Regarding the authorities of Scripture, Tradition and a teaching Church, there are a number of recurring themes throughout the
When I was a young man, I used to hear stories of the courage of Great Protestant Reformers like Martin Luther and John Calvin. In my reformation heritage, the emphasis
Marcus Grodi welcomes former Evangelical and Catholic apologist Mark Shea to discuss 2 Thessalonians 2: 15 and the issue of Tradition.
Marcus Grodi welcomes former Presbyterian Rev. Paul Key to discuss Scripture verses Matthew 16: 19, 18: 19 and John 20: 23 and the issue of authority.
Marcus Grodi welcomes former president of the Evangelical Theological Society Francis Beckwith to discuss 1 Peter 3: 14-17.
Scripture says that God hears the prayers of a righteous man. And who is more righteous than Jesus? Apparently, though, when Jesus prayed in his great Priestly prayer in John