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The legacy of Hans Küng's Doctrine of Justification lives on! The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest body of Reformed Churches in the world, and they have signed the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification on July 5th, 2017 in special ceremony in Wittenburg, Germany. The signing was witnessed […]
The Legacy of Hans Küng’s Doctrine of Justification (August 24, 2014)
Hans Küng (1928—) was ordained in 1955, and his doctoral thesis, Justification: La Doctrine de Karl Barth et Une Réflexion Catholique was published in 1957 (Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection, 1964 ET). Justification was Küng's first book and was a study of the Protestant and Roman Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of Justification […]
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Karl Barth on the differences between Catholics and Protestant (August 2, 2013)
In a letter to Thomas Wipf in Zurich on October 31, 1963, Karl Barth wrote from Basel a helpful summary of the points of disagreements between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Karl Barth had many Roman Catholic friends, such as Hans Küng whom was a principle character at Vatican II. These […]
John Calvin on the Roman Catholic Objections to the Reformation (February 1, 2013)
John Eck's Enchiridion locorum communium adversus Lutheranos (1526, 1536)
John Calvin lists what he believes to be the basic objections the Roman Catholic Church held against the Reformation in the 16th Century.
"They call it "new" and "of recent birth."
"They reproach it as "doubtful and uncertain"
"They inquire whether it is right for […]
The Reformation’s Lack of Miracles: A Response by John Calvin (January 28, 2013)
~ Updated and Revised: February 21st, 2019 ~
In the "Prefatory Address to the King of France", in the opening of Institutes of the Christian Religion, John Calvin outlines the Roman Catholic objections to the Reformation, and then Calvin responses to each of them. One of the Catholic criticisms is that the […]
Denzinger’s Enchiridion on Origenism and Monothelitism (June 25, 2012)
Henry Denzinger's Sources of Catholic Dogma (Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum) (online text) is a compilation of quotations from Church Councils, Popes, Bishops and significant leaders that are foundational to the Roman Catholic Magisterium. The quotations are numbered, and often referenced by "Denzinger ###" by many […]
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John Cosin, (1594-1674), Bishop of Durham, Church of England
Henry Bettenson's Document's of the Early Church contains a letter from John Cosin (1594-1674) titled A Letter to the Countess of Peterborough (1660). The letter is helpful as an example of the standard Protestant objections to Roman Catholicism from an Anglican perspective.
John Cosin, […]
Rudolf Bultmann: de-mythologizing, Gnosticism and his works (March 8, 2012)
Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at the University of Marburg. Bultmann is well know for his de-mythologizing method that he attempted to purge the New Testament of what he perceived to be legendary accretions to the Christian Tradition. The method is historically reminiscent of the penknife redaction of Marcion […]
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The Church by Hans Küng (review) (October 17, 2011)
Hans Küng is a Catholic Priest and a prolific theologian, and a very controversial man. I'm drawn to his writings because he serves as aurea mediocritas between Protestantism and Catholicism. I first learned about Küng after his criticism of ...