by Karlo Broussard | Mar 7, 2024 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
When it comes to the Christian doctrine of hell, there is no lack of critics. One critique, espoused by David Bentley Hart, is that hell necessarily entails punishment without reform, which seemingly would be contrary to God’s goodness. In his book That All Shall Be...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Typically, Protestants who believe in the “once saved always saved” doctrine also believe we can “know” we have eternal life. And the knowledge here is taken to be knowledge with absolute certainty, i.e., having no possibility of error—as opposed to knowledge with...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
A student of mine recently was troubled by a challenge that a Protestant pastor posed to him and a group of teenagers. The pastor claimed that the denial of the “once saved always saved” doctrine—that’s to say, the Catholic belief that it’s possible to lose your...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Stock Protestant objections to the practice of invoking the saints to pray for us have been around for quite some time: “Jesus is the one mediator,” “we shouldn’t communicate with the dead,” “the dead can’t hear us,” etc. And a plethora of successful responses have...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 15, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Is Christianity a religion full of contradictions? This Muslim fellow on TikTok thinks so. He thinks that, in professing Jesus to be God, we thereby affirm and deny at the same time certain attributes of God. For example, he argues, “If you say God became man, you...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 26, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics often critique the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura by saying it’s self-defeating. The reasoning usually goes something like this: 1) sola scriptura claims that we shouldn’t assent to any doctrine as infallible unless it’s found in Scripture; 2) The...
