The Protestant S Dilemma

Author : Devin Rose
Publisher : Catholic Answers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1938983610

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The Protestant's Dilemma by Devin Rose Pdf

What if Protestantism were true? What if the Reformers really were heroes, the Bible the sole rule of faith, and Christ's Church just an invisible collection of loosely united believers? As an Evangelical, Devin Rose used to believe all of it. Then one day the nagging questions began. He noticed things about Protestant belief and practice that didn't add up. He began following the logic of Protestant claims to places he never expected it to go -leading to conclusions no Christians would ever admit to holding. In The Protestant's Dilemma, Rose examines over thirty of those conclusions, showing with solid evidence, compelling reason, and gentle humor how the major tenets of Protestantism - if honestly pursued to their furthest extent - wind up in dead ends. The only escape? Catholic truth. Rose patiently unpacks each instance, and shows how Catholicism solves the Protestant's dilemma through the witness of Scripture, Christian history, and the authority with which Christ himself undeniably vested his Church.

Author : William Jason Wallace
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 026804421X

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Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835-1860 by William Jason Wallace Pdf

W. Jason Wallace examines three antebellum groups and argues that the divisions among them stemmed from disagreements over the role that religious convictions played in a free society.

Author : Colin D. Standish,Russell R. Standish
Publisher : Hartland Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Evangelicalism
ISBN : 0923309268

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The Evangelical Dilemma by Colin D. Standish,Russell R. Standish Pdf

The authors focus on what they see as the crisis of Reformed Evangelical Protestantism in the contemporary world, asking whether evangelicalism still believes that the Bible alone is the basis for faith and practice and in the priesthood of all believers.

Author : Casey J. Chalk
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645852292

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The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity by Casey J. Chalk Pdf

Turn on Christian radio anywhere in the United States and see how long it takes before someone declares that “Scripture clearly teaches [fill in the blank].” There’s a reason for that, and it has to do with the very origins of Protestant Christianity more than five hundred years ago. The Protestant Reformation coalesced around five core doctrines: sola scriptura, sola fide, sola gratia, solus Christus, and soli Deo gloria. But another founding principle served as bedrock for all of them: the doctrine of clarity, or perspicuity. According to this doctrine, which was upheld in various forms by all the major Reformers and remains central to Protestantism today, the Bible is clear enough so that any Christian, relying on the Holy Spirit, will be able to determine at least what is necessary for salvation, if not much more. The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity catalogues and analyzes the historical, theological, and philosophical dimensions of perspicuity and finds the doctrine not only confused but erroneous, destructive, and self-defeating. The Obscurity of Scripture exposes the hopeless dead ends of clarity and, through a consideration of Catholic teaching on the Bible, offers the only way out.

Author : Carol Piper Heming
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781935503620

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Protestants and the Cult of the Saints by Carol Piper Heming Pdf

The role of the saints became a theological dilemma for scholars and laity alike throughout the Reformation era. As Protestants tried to remove themselves from the hold of the Catholic Church, the cult of the saints remained a formidable presence. Through the analysis of 180 pamphlets published by reformers in German-speaking Europe, Carol Heming shows the struggle Protestants faced in purging the cult of the saints from their culture and religion. Heming examines why Reformation leaders so strongly and universally denounced the cult of the saints and whether the holy patrons disappeared from Protestant areas without benefit of champion or defender. Complete scriptural references used in the pamphlets against the saints and images are included.

Author : Paul Roe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134276899

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Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma by Paul Roe Pdf

Ethnic Violence and the Societal Security Dilemma explores how the phenomenon of ethnic violence can be understood as a form of security dilemma by shifting the focus of the concept away from its traditional concern with state sovereignty to that of identity instead. The book includes case studies on: * ethnic violence between Serbs and Croats in the Krajina region of Croatia, August 1990 * ethnic violence between Hungarian and Romanians in the Transylvania region of Romania, March 1990.

Author : John Gaffar La Guerre
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498543644

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The Dilemmas of Ethnic Policy by John Gaffar La Guerre Pdf

The Dilemmas of Ethnic Policy: A Global Perspective argues that ethnic conflict increases or decreases in relation to changes in the social structure and the location and distribution of political power. Ethnic grievances derive from lack of access to valued resources, and elites play a crucial role in allocating those resources. This book examines the experiences of five countries with a history of ethnic conflict: former Yugoslavia/Bosnia-Herzegovina, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States. It finds that in many cases, solutions adopted to mitigate ethnic conflict have unintended consequences. Often, supposed solutions confuse cause and effect and in fact worsen ethnic conflict. Attempts to address identity issues by pandering to them often led to further ethnic demands. This book argues that, based on the experiences of the countries under examination, the best course is to adopt policies that encourage alliances between and among ethnic groups.

Author : William Katerberg
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773569034

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Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950 by William Katerberg Pdf

He describes the life and work of five leaders in the Anglican Church in Canada and the Episcopal Church in the United States who came of age in the late nineteenth century and served their religious communities until the mid-twentieth century. As clergy and educators they hoped to root the faith of modern Anglicans/Episcopalians in past traditions to provide a compelling spiritual purpose and identity for the present and the future. Their attempts to articulate a historical basis for Anglican unity and Christian ecumenism often had contradictory and even sectarian results. Modernity and the Dilemma of North American Anglican Identities, 1880-1950 offers historians and scholars of religion and culture in North America a comparative perspective and a new way to understand how a previous generation looked to the past to address the dilemmas of an uncertain present and future.

Author : Gerald W. Schlabach
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441212639

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Unlearning Protestantism by Gerald W. Schlabach Pdf

In this clearly written and insightful book, Gerald Schlabach addresses the "Protestant dilemma" in ecclesiology: how to build lasting Christian community in a world of individualism and transience. Schlabach, a former Mennonite who is now Catholic, seeks not to encourage readers to abandon Protestant churches but to relearn some of the virtues that all Christian communities need to sustain their communal lives. He offers a vision for the right and faithful roles of authority, stability, and loyal dissent in Christian communal life. The book deals with issues that transcend denominations and will appeal to all readers, both Catholic and Protestant, interested in sustaining Christian tradition and community over time.

Author : Marjorie Rubright
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812246230

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Doppelganger Dilemmas by Marjorie Rubright Pdf

The Dutch were culturally ubiquitous in England during the early modern period and constituted London's largest alien population in the second half of the sixteenth century. While many sought temporary refuge from Spanish oppression in the Low Countries, others became part of a Dutch diaspora, developing their commercial, spiritual, and domestic lives in England. The category "Dutch" catalyzed questions about English self-definition that were engendered less by large-scale cultural distinctions than by uncanny similarities. Doppelgänger Dilemmas uncovers the ways England's real and imagined proximities with the Dutch played a crucial role in the making of English ethnicity. Marjorie Rubright explores the tensions of Anglo-Dutch relations that emerged in the form of puns, double entendres, cognates, homophones, copies, palimpsests, doppelgängers, and other doublings of character and kind. Through readings of London's stage plays and civic pageantry, English and Continental polyglot and bilingual dictionaries and grammars, and travel accounts of Anglo-Dutch rivalries and friendships in the Spice Islands, Rubright reveals how representations of Dutchness played a vital role in shaping Englishness in virtually every aspect of early modern social life. Her innovative book sheds new light on the literary and historical forces of similitude in an era that was so often preoccupied with ethnic and cultural difference.

Author : Devin Rose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0615445306

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If Protestantism Is True by Devin Rose Pdf

Devin Rose was raised atheistically but underwent a radical conversion to Protestant Christianity before ultimately becoming Catholic. This book was written after ten years of reflection and dialogue with Protestants and Catholics on the key issues that divide them. Rose presents a series of intelligible and compelling arguments for the Catholic Church's claim to be the Church that Christ founded. He considers the strongest Protestant responses to his arguments and offers straightforward rebuttals to them. The papacy, Ecumenical councils, the canon of Scripture, the Protestant Reformers, and the sacraments are just a few of the many topics covered in illuminating detail. Catholics will learn to defend their faith, and Protestants will be challenged to answer the toughest questions about the roots of their beliefs.

Author : Willem Hendrik van de Pol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Christianity
ISBN : IOWA:31858048404283

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The Christian Dilemma by Willem Hendrik van de Pol Pdf

Author : Roger D. Congleton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 9780197642788

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Solving Social Dilemmas by Roger D. Congleton Pdf

"Solving Social Dilemmas demonstrates that social, political, and economic progress occur when ethical dispositions evolve in a manner that solves or ameliorate social dilemmas. That same process can account for the emergence of prosperous societies in the West during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was substantially a consequence of increased moral support for commerce and careers in commerce that had emerged during the previous two centuries. To support these claims, two analytical histories are developed. The first uses elementary game theory to illustrate how critical social dilemmas can be solved by internalized ethical ideas about "proper" or "moral" conduct. That analytical history implies that in the absence of solutions to critical social dilemmas-of which there are many thousands-social, political, and economic development tends to be curtailed. The second analytical history surveys three centuries of ethical assessments concerning the proper role of commerce in a good life and good society. The authors reviewed all used economic illustrations to illustrate moral principles or how they may be applied. Because the illustrating examples are ones that their readers would have found "obvious," they shed light on the ethical dispositions in the communities to whom those works were addressed. Together, they reveal that concerns about the effects of market son ethical dispositions were diminishing during the centuries before the great acceleration of commerce in the nineteenth century. In fact, many of the authors reviewed argued that there was a complete harmony between ethical dispositions and commerce. Together the two narratives imply that shifts in norms directly and indirectly account for the relative prosperity of the West compared to other parts of the World during the twentieth century. It turns out that flourishing commercial societies have moral foundations"--

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110735698

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Federal Aid to Education, Hearings on S. 81, S. 170, S. 199, S. 472, S. 1131, and S. 1157, April 9, 21-25, 38-30, May 1-2, 1947 by United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare Pdf

Author : Angela K Bourne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317484059

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Democratic Dilemmas by Angela K Bourne Pdf

This book examines how democratic communities resolve dilemmas posed by anti-system parties or, more specifically, the question of why democracies take the grave decision to ban political parties. On the one hand, party bans may ‘protect’ democracies, usually from groups deemed to undermine the democratic system or its core values, territorial integrity or state security. At the same time, banning parties challenges foundational democratic commitments to political pluralism, tolerance and rights to free speech and association. The book probes the deliberative processes, discursive strategies and power politics employed when democratic communities negotiate this dilemma. It examines discourses of securitization and desecuritization, preferences of veto-players, anti-system party orientations to violence, electoral systems and the cordon sanitaire as alternatives to party bans, and incentives for mainstream parties to cooperate, rather than ban, parties to achieve office and policy goals. It does so with reference to case studies of party bans, legalizations and failed ban cases in Spain (Herri Batasuna and successors), the United Kingdom (Sinn Féin and Republican Clubs) and Germany (Socialist Reich Party and National Democratic Party of Germany).