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I am not proposing the reconstruction of a magisterium. I am simply identifying the causes that led to the spread of Protestant...

When literalist Christians tell me to just open the Bible and read it, as if the truth were simply written there in black and white, I...

In fact, I am criticizing the concept of "a list of doctrines one must believe in order to be truly saved as a Christian," which has...

Oh yes, many have done that and theologians have criticized this reduction of divinity. Fabien Muller argues that modern theology often...

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The divine cannot be reduced to a set of doctrines. Barth is right to warn that Christians often try to construct a ladder of...

Karl Barth (CD I/2 §17) maintains that human beings continually construct conceptual and ritual "ladders" to heaven. Whenever we place...

You keep returning to the idea that faith means believing that God exists. But that is not faith. In fact, it is through faith that God...

Instead of climbing a ladder of good deeds, one climbs a ladder of correct ideas. But the ladder is the same. The pride is the same, and...

Some Christians mistakenly translate faith into "believing the right doctrines." But biblically, faith is not assent to a list of...

That is incorrect. When I reference Herrick, for example, it is because I recently read his book. I also cite his work in a recent...

The theological framework of my interlocutors appears to share significant structural similarities with Islam, particularly in its...

The Church Fathers, including Paul, employed participatory language to describe heavenly life. Paul specifically framed this reality...

This is double‑predestination rhetoric pushed to its extreme, turning pastoral doctrine into speculative philosophy. For Luther, the...

Paul is speaking here about moral conduct. As the Reformers made clear, this does not bring us any closer to God. That view is...