by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Sometimes, we’re called to explain our Catholic beliefs using Scripture, often when talking with our Protestant friends. Other times, a historical approach works best, such as when we’re defending the reliability of the New Testament or Jesus’ resurrection to someone...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Critics of the doctrine of hell often argue that it’s unjust, because eternal punishment exceeds the temporal nature of a mortal sin. Why should any sin we commit on earth, in time, require everlasting punishment in hell? It’s not proportional. St. Thomas Aquinas...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that “every spiritual soul is . . . immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final resurrection” (366). But some Christians outside mainstream Protestantism, in particular...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 26, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In “Is the Only Real Knowledge Scientific Knowledge?” I argued that scientism—the belief that science is the only source for real and objective knowledge—is a self-referentially incoherent belief. It’s not empirically verifiable or quantifiably measurable, and thus is...
by Karlo Broussard | May 18, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In “A God-Bathed World” we saw that there exists at least one efficient cause of which essence and existence are identical. We called this ipsum esse subsistens—subsistent being itself. Such a being we also call God. But your atheist friend may counter that we still...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 17, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In “Testing the Causal Chain” I responded to critics who deny the causal principle that whatever is composed of essence and existence —that is, for which existence is not part of essence—needs a cause. A variant of this principle that some atheists also challenge is...
