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HeterodoxRoman Catholicism Why this isn't an Apologetics Site Anymore, An Apology to Brother Dimond, and a Reading List for the Apologetics Wannabes (New 9/20 - 10/3) Hopefully my last apologetics article for a long time. With over a dozen Orthodox Apologetics websites online, I am not sure why I keep getting people writing me to answer Roman Apologists who write bad things about Orthodoxy. Do we expect them to stop if we tell them the truth? I don't. Here is my last "to-do" on apologetics, as well as a nice reading list for anyone who wants to be able to answer heterodox with ease. A Response to "Most Holy Family Monastery", a Roman Catholic traditionalist group on Orthodoxy (New 9/19-10/2) This article prompted the above, and is the reason I got tired of answering "apologetics letters". Frankly, some of the stuff that is thrown at Orthodoxy isn't worth responding to, and any Orthodox who knows his history will see that in the two links above. A Response to James Likoudis, President-Emeritus of Catholics United for the Faith A Second Response to James Likoudis, or a Reply from a Lapsed Papist, Now Orthodox Catholic A Humorous Dialogue with a Would-Be Traditional Catholic Apologist Catching a would-be apologist lurking around on Yahoo! Messenger ages ago one day when I couldn't sleep. I'm still sad that he was busy looking for chicks and got Joe Suaiden instead. The Debate on Papal Primacy, .pdf format. Joseph Suaiden vs Gerald Daffer . I have to thank ACTS (the Roman Catholic-sponsored side of this debate) for keeping this up so long. I had help from four different Orthodox writers who knew the Fathers well enough to help me argue this. Protestantism On the Holy Images, St John of Damascus. This text by St John of Damascus shows how closely linked the Orthodox teaching on venerating Icons is to the Orthodox teaching of the Incarnation of Christ. Anyone against venerating Icons should read what this 8th century Father wrote in response to the first people who tried to stop the veneration of Icons-- the Iconoclast heretics. Sola Scriptura: In the Vanity of their Minds, Fr John Whiteford. Written by a former Sola-Scriptura adherent turned Orthodox Christian (and eventually ordained a priest), this paper is, putting aside the harshness of the title, one of the most succint answers to the question of whether "the Bible alone" is ever sufficient for the Christian Faith. Against Helvidius: On the Ever-Virginity of the Mother of God, St Jerome. Many fundamentalists and Protestants deny that the Deipara (Theotokos) was "ever-virgin", based on what they read in the Bible. What did St Jerome have to say? St Jerome translated the Bible from the Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac to the Latin, and answered the first major heretic to doubt that Mary was "ever-virgin". More to Come. |
 Why this isn't an Apologetics Site, an Apology and a Reading List for Apologetics Wannabes (Added September 20/October 2007) A Response to "Most Holy Family Monastery" on Orthodoxy (Added September 19/October 2 2007) For the Archive: A Complaint from an Orthodox in the West, 2002 (Added July 21/August 3, 2007) Puerto Rico takes steps closer to Independence, from the Miami Herald (July 21/August 3, 2007) On the Federal Reserve, Conspiracies, and the Patristic Teaching on the Antichrist, Part I (July 4/17, 2007) Why the name change? Why the bandwidth shrinkage? Why no more ecumenist news? (July 3/16, 2007) New Book: Between Madness and Death: A Hispanic Orthodox History, Book I LINKS
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