by Karlo Broussard | Mar 4, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism defines heaven as the “ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme definitive happiness” (1024). But how? The textbook answer is the knowledge that we will have of the divine essence, which theologians call the...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 5, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics often appeal to Revelation 5:8 as support for the intercession of the saints: And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 14, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that the Church “must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers,” and such a persecution will “unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 29, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 1240 that a proper form for administering baptism is “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” But for some Protestants, such as Oneness Pentecostals, this Trinitarian...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 29, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Protestant apologists Norman Geisler and Ralph MacKenzie argue that the Catholic dogma of purgatory “in effect denies the all-sufficiency of Christ’s atoning death.” They quote biblical passages that speak of the sufficient nature of Christ’s work on the cross (John...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 1, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
In the Bible, Jesus is said to have cast out demons, raised people from the dead, and healed the blind and deaf. But to many skeptics, such things sound like the stuff of legend, too fantastic to believe. There are two ways to talk to skeptics about Jesus’ miracles: a...
