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Nov 4

Sola Scriptura and Did St Augustine Consider Ecumenical Councils Infallible?

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A Reply to The @The_Catechumen and a Friendly Call-Out for Using A Manipulated Text!

He argues yes to this question in this following video he made...

and in a recent discussion we had about it.

He argues that, and watch the video timestamp for the whole case, in short summed up here,

But this is not so. St Augustine says Cyprian would have yielded (cederet) without a doubt if the question had been clarified (eliquata), declared (declerata) and confirmed (solidaretur) by a plenary council, this is the literal translation of the Latin.

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Nov 2

St Augustine On The Psalm About Our Justification! a thread 🧵 - PART ONE 1/7

He writes on Psalm 32, Second Sermon

"This is a psalm about God's grace and about our justification"

Let us see how St Augustine applies this to our lives!

He writes,

"The apostle Paul bore witness to the fact that this psalm deals with the grace that makes us Christians; that is why we arranged for this particular passage to be read to you. When the apostle was explaining about the righteousness that depends on faith, in opposition to those who boasted about a righteousness derived from works, he asked, What are we to say that Abraham obtained, he who was our father according to the flesh? If Abraham was justified by works, he has ground for pride, but not before God (Rom 4: 1-2). May God keep that kind of pride far from us! Let us listen to a different injunction: Let anyone who boasts, boast of the Lord (1 Cor 1 :31)."

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Interestingly, St Augustine interprets the phrase from Romans 4:1, as an indicative, namely that if one is justified by works, which in this particular context is explained by St Augustine as describes one who has obeyed God's eternal law, e.g. not committed murder, theft, robbery, desired another's property, adultery etc., then one does indeed have grounds for pride - yet, and crucially, but not grounds for pride before God.

This kind of pride, a pride before the world and not before God, is contrasted by St Augustine with the believer's pride or glory [gloriam] which he has before God. This glory before God the believer can have, exactly because his righteousness is by faith and not by works, by gift and not by desert

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St. Augustine then continues, saying of Abraham,

"Not so our father Abraham. This passage of scripture is meant to draw our attention to the difference. We confess that the holy patriarch was pleasing to God; this is what our faith affirms about him. So true is it that we can declare and be certain that he did have grounds for pride before God, and this is what the apostle tells us. It is quite certain, he says, and we know it for sure, that Abraham has grounds for pride before God. But if he had been justified by works, he would have had grounds for pride, but not before God. However, since we know he does have grounds for pride before God, it follows that he was not justified on the basis of works. So if Abraham was not justified by works, how was he justified? The apostle goes on to tell us how: What does scripture say? That is, about how Abraham was justified, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness (Rom 4:3; Gn 15:6). Abraham, then, was justified by faith."

Notice how St Augustine interprets St Paul's words about justification by faith apart from works in Romans 4.

St Augustine affirms that St Paul is indeed discussing justification by faith apart from good works, that is works of the divine law as opposite to works of the ceremonial law, or what he in another place calls works of justice.

Likewise, St Augustine notes that Romans 4 does not concern itself with what later Roman theology denotes as initial justification. For the subject of this justification is Abraham, who, as St Augustine notes, was pleasing to God.

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Oct 19

St Augustine and the rejection of the doctrine of purgatory? - a thread🧵

St Augustine is presented by many RC as a champion of the doctrine of purgatory due to his discussions of possible purgation of sins after death. Yet such a reading assumes too much and tend to ignore...

some key passages of St Augustine. For something to be a doctrine or article of faith it must be revealed by God and cannot be subject to doubt or conjecture. In other words, if St Augustine held that purgatory was a doctrine, rather than an opinion or probable interpretation..

then such a doctrine would be the object of supernatural faith and to doubt it would be sinful.
But does St Augustine treat purgatory as an article of faith? I think not. In his wonderful little booklet, the Enchiridion, St Augustine discusses the possibility of post-mortem...

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Aug 1

Marriage's beautiful prefigurement of heaven

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The union of man and woman is a sacramental image of Christ and the church, Eph 5:32, a reality that is consummated at the eschaton at the Wedding Feast of the Lamb of God Rev 19:7, earthly marriage therefore prefigures...

in its unitive harmonization of wills,interests and desires through love the believer's final arrival at union with divine life itself

In holy marriage we find a particular sacredness of the state instituted by God for which pre-fallen man was made. It is the state of Paradise..

and in a very real and mysterious way husband and wives are able to share in a particular sacredness through holy marriage by which they already now in glimpses and part partake in supreme heavenly marriage.

Yet not only by reaching forth toward that which is to come does....

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Jul 11

N.F.S. Grundtvig

The theologian, poet, nationalist and translator and lover of Norse Mythology - thread 🧵

Is without a doubt the most influence Danish theologian who has ever lived. Here in Denmark his legacy and renown far surpasses that of Kierkegaard, who is much...

more well known internationally.

Much could be, and is, written on Grundtvig. He was an incredibly intelligent man and in his youth was particularly interested in Norse Mythology and Germanic history.

As a Lutheran theologian he was very preoccupied

with the intersection between people, history and faith. He saw God’s hand as active in history, akin to the Medieval theologians, a notion which was quite rare in the post-enlightenment era in which Grundtvig was active.
He taught himself Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse and ...

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Jul 3

https://twitter.com/potamopotos/status/1807129682585825584

The Slaughter of a Sacred Cow – is Lord of the Rings a Christian work?

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I, Explain the terms and intent of my original thread
II, Discuss the question of authorial intent and the oft-quoted comment in Tolkien’s 142th letter
III, Answer some of the substantial

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counter-points raised against my thread
IV, high-light some essentially Nose Pagan elements

An overwhelming share of response has been absolutely underwhelming in substance. Apart from a few breaths the replies have been a storm of hot air. But alas, empty kettles rattle

the loudest.
Yet the amount of positive feedback and agreement surpassed my expectations as well. I'm very grateful for all the engagement my thread received!

But let's get going

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