By: Jay Dyer A Calvinist has asked: how can Christ assume a fallen nature and not be sinful?   In Calvinism, the tendency is to say that sin is actually in...

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” –St. John’s Gospel, 1:14 “Why do you incessantly call Mary ‘Theotokos’?” –Julian the Apostate, (Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, Vol. I, pg....

By: Jay Dyer A common thread in non-Christian religions and worldviews is that of dualism. In fact, nature itself does exhibit all forms of dualities, such as night and day,...

By: Jay Dyer Granted, this is vintage Alpha Omega Ministries, and maybe James White has changed his position since then, and if so, I will gladly retract this post. However,...

By: Nick I would hope that anyone reading the title of this post would consider the suggested question nothing short of blasphemy. For those who don’t know, there are Christians...

By: Jay Dyer Many are confused about the meaning and terminology of the debates that have been occurring lately in regards to Calvinism, the Trinity, Nature, Person, etc. So, an...

  St. Athanasius Uses theosis, the Theotokos, the Real Presence and the Single Subject Argument to Refute the Same Errors the Calvinists Preach: [Prior to the battle of St. Cyril of...

“The soul’s salvation is the consummation of faith. This consummation is the revelation of what has been believed. Revelation is the inexpressible interpénétration (τιεριχώρησις) of the believer with (or toward,...

And Why I Wouldn’t Go Back Many practical and observational reasons could also be given, but this will focus on the central doctrinal errors I see. By: Jay Dyer I...

By: Jay Dyer “…The Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason, and…we cannot even represent to ourselves all its greatness.” -St. Gregory the Theologian St. Gregory of Nazianzus is...

By: Jay Dyer No one should be afraid to read someone even the West believes to be a Doctor of the Church. Some Latins, however, actually discourage people from reading...

By: Jay Dyer Still trudging through the voluminous Books Against Eunomius by St. Gregory of Nyssa, there is a literally a treasure trove of lucid argumentation and points that can be...

By: Jay Dyer I’m posting this because the St. Maximus section is often referred to (and it’s all St. Maximus anyway). The western corollary to the Logos/logoi is “divine exemplarism.” Both are rooted in...

By: Jay Dyer As is evident in conversations with both unenlightened Catholics and Calvinists (but especially Calvinists), the starting point of theology – the ordo theologiae is radically different. The West...

By: Jay Dyer Basically, the argument is that in the reformed view of imputation, the “righteousness” Christ earns via His keeping of the law is *not a righteousness based on...

N. writes: No offense Jay, but you are operating on multiple, severely flawed groundworks. For example: 1) Thomas never taught God was like a blob of jello such that ‘Father...

  By: Jay Dyer A friend asked a good question, and it was something I began to wonder a few years ago. What exactly constitutes “scholasticism.” Varying dates, personages, movements...

Problems in Thomism By: Jay Dyer Part 1: God In disputes over the essence – energy distinction there is much confusion. I recently read through several more pages of God,...

By: Jay Dyer  I have noted many times that the canon was a development, and that several factors were involved in the decisions made on the canon in various parts of the...

By: Jay Dyer Many reformed Protestant acquaintances have, on various occasions, sent me different challenges relating to the canon of Scripture. One of these was a list of arguments proposed by...