First, she seems to mistake omnipresence for omniscience. Saints would not need access to every point in space and time to answer prayers from a multitude of petitioners. They would only need knowledge.
Dec 4, 2024 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Watching the discussion about the NYPost article about Orthodoxy and the "surge" here are my 2 cents, which focuses on one part of the pushback from Reformed and Lutheran traditions mainly.
The pushback goes, at least in one part, something like the following. Such who converted are popular evangelicals who really never understood Protestantism, but only a weaker caricature of it. If they had taken the time to investigate the Reformation properly, they would not become Orthodox.
Sep 21, 2024 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Here Mr. Hess, whom I am sure is a swell guy, gives a fairly standard & Reformed line of reasoning against Libertarian conception of freedom in the context of Christology. To see why this line of reasoning rests on a mistake, see the following.
Mr. Hess states to the effect that Jesus could not, in his human power of choosing (will) have met the conditions on libertarian freedom. Why? Because that conception, he claims, requires choosing between good and evil options.
Sep 6, 2024 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
So here is assumedly an Anglican of sorts making this claim and appealing to Calvin. So a few remarks below.
First, not even the Lutherans follow Calvin here. Note no less a Lutheran authority than Martin Chemnitz below. Consequently, Calvin is an innovator here.
Loci Theologici, p. 80
Jul 31, 2024 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
@Infinity8831456 Continued...
I am not seeing anything in Toronen that I disagree with. So if you think what he says is incompatible with what I have said, then you need to say what it is and why.
First, “person” is an English term, translated from the term prosopon, which may or may not capture the meaning of the English term person historically speaking. So just saying that Hypostasis and prosopon are synonymous doesn’t move the ball any.
Mar 16, 2024 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Recently, Gavin Ortlund made an appearance with Fr. DeYoung over at Transfigured Life w/ Fr. Ivanoff. Here I'd like to offer some critical remarks.
The conversation (not a debate) was centered around the Protestant doctrine of Sola Scriptura. Fr. DeYoung began with noting that on SS everything is revisable. And given the cultural decay this revising is accelerating and this is why many ppl are looking into Orthodoxy.
Jan 25, 2024 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
Some reflections on the discussion last night with the LDS participants. First, thanks for giving us the air time on your space. These kinds of discussions can be difficult.
ISTM that the LDS position boiled down to about 4 areas. 1. Philosophical argument/Trinitarianism. 2. Catholics or others acted immorally at times. 3. Measuring the early church by LDS claims/ecclesiology 4. 2 Thess 2:3
Dec 21, 2023 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund released a short video today trying to express/defend the Extra Calvinisticum, so I think there are some worthwhile things to say here.
He frames the matter in terms of a question-Was the Son of God omnipresent during his earthly sojourn? This is the typical way the Extra Calvinisticum (EC) is promoted but it is mistaken. A variety of Christological positions affirm as much and they do so without the EC.
Nov 28, 2023 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
It appears that Trent Horn's video on the absence of Sola Fide in the church fathers has triggered the Lutherans, notably Jordan Cooper and his Scholastic comrades. I'll add my 2 cents on Cooper's response.
1 Clement-Cooper argues that what Clement excludes provides strong support for a SF reading. But this begs the question as to how what is excluded is to be read. Are these things of ones own power or by divine?
Oct 23, 2023 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
Since the cancellation of Dr. Frost's interview on AFR, the Phoebe center and its allies have put out a number of fallacious and misleading statements on the matter. I aim to address some of them here.
First, the Phoebe center says that they do not advocate for Women's Ordination, but this is misleading. Many of its members openly support ordination of woman at all levels. So stating that the organization doesn't advocate for it rings hallow when its leaders do.
Jun 9, 2023 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
On "Female Deacons."
The strategy is fundamentally Postmodern. That is take some ambiguous point in a system and "deconstruct" it, that is, show that it is capable of a radically different interpretation and then use it to flip the entire system on its head.
That is what "deconstruct" means in PM thought. It doesn't mean to analyze. So what is currently being done with deaconesses is to reinterpret them within a modern philosophical framework of a mixture of Post structuralism and the Frankfurt school,
Jun 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Apparently, according to his own statements, Fr. Simeon B. Corona, a priest in the Greek jurisdiction in San Diego, Calif is already having female altar servers and other women serve at the altar.
This of course is directly contrary to the Christian tradition, East and West. I do not know if he has episcopal approval, though that wouldn't matter much.
