Catholicism

What Think Ye of Rome?: An Evangelical Appraisal of Contemporary Catholicism (Part One)

Christian Research Journal, 1993:winter:p.32) by Kenneth R. Samples. Few debates generate more heat and less light among evangelical Protestants than that of how they should view Roman Catholicism. In this first of a four-part series, Kenneth R. Samples begins to tackle this thorny question by providing a necessary overview of contemporary Catholicism.

What Think Ye of Rome? An Evangelical Appraisal of Contemporary Catholicism (Part Two)  

Christian Research Journal, 1993:spring:p.32) by Kenneth R. Samples. Is Roman Catholicism a cult? Many evangelicals maintain that Protestants who answer no to this question are selling out the Protestant Reformation. Kenneth R. Samples presents the case for not classifying the Catholic church as a cult, while also highlighting the major doctrines which continue to separate Catholics from evangelical Protestants.

What Think Ye of Rome? The Catholic-Protestant Debate on Biblical Authority (Part Three)

by Norman L. Geisler and Ralph E. MacKenzie. Christian Research Journal, 1994:spring/summer:p.24. Roman Catholics and Protestants agree that the Bible is the infallible Word of God. But Catholics embrace church tradition as equally authoritative, and that has led them to affirm doctrines that Protestants -- who hold that the Bible alone is infallible -- reject. What arguments to Catholics cite in support of their view, and how might Protestants respond? Geisler and MacKenzie supply the answers.

What Think Ye of Rome? The Catholic-Protestant Debate on Papal Infallibility (Part Four)

by Norman L. Geisler and Ralph E. MacKenzie. Christian Research Journal, 1994:fall:p.24.

Does the Bible Teach 'Sola Scriptura'?

"Does the Bible Teach 'Sola Scriptura'?" Protestants have always held that the Bible should be our highest authority in matters of faith and practice. But does the Bible itself teach this doctrine? Ken Samples responds in the 'Viewpoint' column, Christian Research Journal.

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary: A Protestant Look at a Catholic Phenomenon, Part One

Christian Research Journal, 1991:winter:p.20, by Kenneth R. Samples. Fatima. Lourdes. Guadalupe. The Virgin Mary has allegedly appeared in these places and others, validating the claims of Roman Catholicism. Kenneth R. Samples responds with a Protestant evaluation.

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary: A Protestant Look at a Catholic Phenomenon, Part Two

Christian Research Journal, 1991:spring:p.20) by Kenneth R. Samples. For the past decade several young people in Medjugorje, Yugoslavia have reported receiving regular visions of the Virgin Mary. Not since the famed apparitions of Lourdes and Fatima have such claims attracted the widespread interest and following that Medjugorje has. Drawing on firsthand investigation, Kenneth R. Samples provides a Protestant response to the apparitions of Mary in Medjugorje and elsewhere.