Author Archive for: DrOakley

Different site, same stuff. ReformedCatholicism.com is gone, now we have in its place, www.communiosanctorum.com (Latin is so much more classy than English could ever be, of course). OK, the good things: love the template. I want one like that. Nay, I demand it! OK, so I don’t have much control over that. But I do like it, though, if you

I read this sermon over dinner last night, and was so blessed I had to invite others to re-read it. Yes, it’s the one Hunt and O’Guinn and others didn’t bother to read before slaughtering it, which only makes it worth the read all the more. Follow the link for the whole thing, but for those without a lot of

For those of you who get Bob Ross’ e-mail updates, yes, I know he’s still on the warpath. I feel for him, but decided last year that he is beyond correction, and in light of his encouragement of Wilkin’s efforts, and his manifest ignorance of Wilkin’s views, and his continued comments about a debate he did not see or hear

First, we note the phrase “no one is able.” The verb “to come” (evlqei/n) is filling out the verb dunatai, which is what you always expect: even in English when we say “able” we follow it with an infinitival phrase, “to do something.” In this case, it is a negation, “no one is able to come to Me.” Is there

This picture sort of sums up the end of the debate: I’m listening to the moderator who is trying to make some serious closing remarks, and Wilkin is…well, I guess only he knows. At one point he was taking pictures of the audience. All I can say is that Dr. Wilkin evidently is not interested in convincing serious Calvinists of

Well, if I had written out how I expected the debate to go…I would have been wrong. I never expected legions of straw-men, enough ignorance of Reformed theology to make Dave Hunt proud, and a nasty, cutting presentation aimed not at the thesis but at me, in particular. But hey, I can roll with the punches, and once again, as