John Calvin: a Catholic Appraisal (Index Page for Dave Armstrong)

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CALVIN'S VIEW OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HEADED BY THE POPE (AND OF LUTHERANISM)

John Calvin Disses Lutheranism, Describes it as "Evil" and Worse Than Catholicism In Its Persecutions of Calvinists

When Did the Pope Become Antichrist? (vs. John Calvin)


Exchange with Anti-Catholic Calvinist Austin Reed on the Definition of "Christian" and Whether Luther and Calvin Regarded Catholicism as a Christian System

John Calvin's View of the Catholic Church

Dialogue With Dr. Paul Owen on John Calvin's Anti-Catholicism (vs. Paul Owen)

Luther's (and Calvin's) View of the Catholic Church

The Problem of Authority: Luther, Calvin, and Protestantism (+ Part II vs. Kevin Johnson)

The "Catholic" John Calvin: 50 Areas Where His Views Are Harmonious With Catholic Teaching


  SECTARIANISM AND SOLA SCRIPTURA

Reformed Fundamentalist Views of Scripture Alone Reflected by Luther and Calvin

Quiz on Early Protestant Disharmony Regarding Eucharistic Beliefs

Dialogue: John Calvin's Letter to Philip Melanchthon Concerning Protestant Divisions: Its Nature, Intent, and Larger Implications

Dialogue on Sola Scriptura (Particularly John Calvin's and the "Classic Reformation Protestant" Conception) (vs. Kevin Johnson)

Divisions Actually Scandalized Melanchthon and Other Early Protestants Like Calvin and Luther



PREDESTINATION, SUPRALAPSARIANISM, SOVEREIGNTY, GRACE, FAITH

Dialogue With a Calvinist Over Calvin's View With Regard to Supralapsarianism (vs. David W. Ponter)

Total Depravity: Are the Non-Elect Continually Evil? (vs. John Calvin)

Does St. Augustine Agree with John Calvin and Calvinists Regarding Total Depravity? (Reply to Detractors) [1-7-14 ]

John Calvin Taught That Good Works Are Part of Every Christian's Life and the Inevitable Manifestation of a True Saving Faith and Justification

John Calvin: Only God Knows Who is Numbered Among the Elect

1 Corinthians 3:9 and John Calvin's Distorted Understanding of the Council of Trent's Doctrine of Grace

Did John Calvin Accuse the Catholic Church of Pelagianism or Only Semi-Pelagianism?

 

Calvin, Supralapsarianism, and God's Sovereignty

2 Corinthians 5:21: Was Jesus Christ Literally Made Sin on the Cross? Did He Suffer the Horrors of Damnation? Luther and Calvin vs. the Church Fathers

Defense of My Critique of Calvin's Institutes, in Reply to the Condemnations of Steve Hays

SACRAMENTS: BAPTISM AND THE EUCHARIST

Baptism and its Parallel With Circumcision (John Calvin)

Further Challenge to "Reformed Catholics": Calvin's and Patristic Eucharistic Theology

The Protestant Sacramentarian Controversies (Calvin vs. Luther vs. Zwingli)

Quiz on Early Protestant Disharmony Regarding Eucharistic Beliefs

 

Dialogue on John Calvin's View of the Eucharist (vs. Alastair Roberts)

The Verbal Wars of Calvin vs. Westphal (and by Extension, Luther) on the Eucharist: The Wonderful Early Protestant Unity Based on the Bible / Calvin Flatly Denies Baptismal Regeneration

John Calvin and St. Cyril of Jerusalem: Comparative Eucharistic Theology

Reply to Joel Garver and Kevin Johnson on Calvin's Eucharistic Theology Compared to St. Cyril of Jerusalem's and the Fathers (Generally Speaking)

Dialogue on John Calvin's Mystical Eucharist (+ Part II) (vs. Josh and Michael S. Horton and Alastair Roberts and John Calvin)

Biblical Evidence for Baptismal Regeneration vs. John Calvin's "Sign and Seal"

MARIOLOGY

Did John Calvin Believe in Mary's Perpetual Virginity? (Debate with Tim Staples + Anti-Catholic James Swan's Usual Unsavory Tactics and Nonsense) [10-12-14]

Luther, Calvin, and Other Early Protestants on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

Mary the Mother of God (Theotokos): Explanation and Espousal by Protestant Founders Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger

John Calvin's Belief in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary Confirmed by Several Calvinist Scholars (Dialogue With a Presbyterian Elder)

John Calvin's Flimsy and Unbiblical Objection to the Term, Mother of God and Anti-Catholic James Swan's Vapid Swipes at Catholic Apologists Regarding the Overall Issue 

"Why Bring Up the Marian Views of the Early Protestant Leaders At All? Of What Relevance is It?" [Facebook, 10-16-14]

DEUTEROCANON

John Calvin's Citations of Deuterocanonical Books (So-Called "Apocrypha"): Documented Instances  [see also a Portugese version]

SCIENCE

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Philip Melanchthon Wax Astronomical, Geocentric, and Aristotelian, Putting the Pernicious "Fool" Copernicus in His Place

John Calvin Assumes a Non-Spherical Earth and Severely Mocks Plato for Believing that the Earth is a Globe

INTOLERANCE, PERSECUTION, AND DOUBLE STANDARDS

John Calvin's Advocacy of Capital Punishment and Persecution of Those Whom He Considers "Blasphemers" or Heretics (Catholics, Anabaptists, Etc.)

 

John Calvin Rails Against Catholic Boy-Bishops, Then Praises Nine-Year-Old King Edward VI, Supreme Head of the Church of England

 

Life in Calvin's Geneva: the Protestant Panacea and City on a Hill?

John Calvin's Sanction of Torture (of the Libertines) and Belief that the Extra Torment Caused by an Inept Executioner Was the "Special Will of God"

John Calvin's Mocking of Michael Servetus's Initial Reaction to His Death Sentence (Burning at the Stake)

 

John Calvin's Disgusted Agony Over Genevan Morals, Personal Betrayal, Dissension of Lutheran "Beasts," Etc. / Inflated Self-Comparison to King David

John Calvin Reiterates His Support of Capital Punishment for Heresy in 1557: Four Years After Servetus' Execution

CALVIN AND THE FATHERS

John Calvin's Rejection of the Epistles of St. Ignatius of Antioch (d. c. 110) 

Calvin: All the Church Fathers Except for St. Augustine Were Dumbbells Regarding Free Will [Facebook] 

NOMINALIST INFLUENCE

The Influence of William of Ockham and Nominalism on Martin Luther and Early Protestant Thought

CELIBACY AND CONTRACEPTION

The Irrational Antipathy of Luther, Calvin, and Other Protestants to Clerical Celibacy

Contraception and the "Fewer Children is Better" Mentality: the Opposition of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Other Protestants

Why Did God Kill Onan? Luther, Calvin, Wesley, C. S. Lewis, and Others on Contraception

Dialogue With John Calvin on Clerical Celibacy

Why Did Baker Books and Crossway Omit John Calvin's Strong Remarks Against Contraception in His Commentaries (Genesis 38:10)?

ICONOCLASM, ART, AND MUSIC

Calvin, Zwingli, and Bullinger Regarded Statues of Christ and Crucifixes as Idols (Calvin Also Rejected Bare Crosses)

John Calvin: Musical Instruments in Christian Services Amount to Idolatry, "Corruption," and "Superstition"; a Defilement of "Pure Worship"

COMMUNION OF THE SAINTS / PENANCE

John Calvin Prayed to Philip Melanchthon After the Latter's Death

Clarification Regarding Calvin's Remarks on Public Repentance and "Symbolic" Absolution

John Calvin's Antipathy to Veneration of Saints and Angels vs. Explicit Biblical Evidences of Same

Temporal Punishment After Forgiveness: Catholicism vs. John Calvin

PERSONAL STRUGGLES AND SHORTCOMINGS / ACCUSATIONS: TRUE AND FALSE

Refuting the Ludicrous Anti-Protestant Sodomy Charge Against John Calvin

John Calvin's Disgusted Agony Over Genevan Morals, Personal Betrayal, Dissension of Lutheran "Beasts," Etc. / Inflated Self-Comparison to King David

Last Updated: 4 November  2014.

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