A common argument heard among evangelicals today is, “If God isn’t Triune, then he can’t be loving.” That is, since love requires someone else to love, there must logically be a plurality of persons within God. This argument is central to the popular book Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves (IVP, 2012). And it’s […]
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Discussing abortion, Scholastic-style
October 15, 2020 
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In the spirit of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, what follows is an attempt to tackle the topic of abortion according to a medieval-scholastic disputation. The topic is divided into four key questions (philosophical, biblical, circumstantial, and legal) that follow the format of Aquinas’s Summa, first setting forth the objections, then stating the opposing traditional view […]
Continue reading Doubting Thomists: John Bolt’s defense of (the real) Aquinas against his Reformational critics
September 26, 2018 3 Comments
Protestants have always had a complicated relationship with the great medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas. On the one hand, the Reformers rejected many of his views on salvation and the sacraments. On the other hand, even in the heat of post-Reformation polemics, Protestants and Catholics were still able to find much common ground in his teachings […]
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