Unanswered Questions
596 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What is the status of Humbert's views on the efficacy of sacraments in Catholicism?
Humbert of Silva Candida was an important medieval theologian, best known for his involvement in the excommunication of the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1054.
He was also a vocal proponent of a ...
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Are the five propositions condemned by Cum occasione in the Augustinus?
This simple question was the center of the quarrel around Port-Royal and the efficacious grace in the 17th century in France. In fact, the defenders of Cornelius Jansen’s Augustinus argued that they ...
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Parallel German (Martin Luther's 1534) and English Bible in PDF format?
I've been looking specifically for a PDF version of the Martin Luther 1534 translation of the Bible with a Parallel English translation (preferably KJV, but any edition will do). I've been hitting a ...
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Pope John Paul II and the Agnus Dei sacramentals?
The Agnus Dei sacramental is one of the Church's strongest sacramental which can only be blessed by a pope. This great consecration of Agnus Dei sacramentals takes place only in the first year of each ...
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Finding a mural of an unknown cathedral?
I am looking for the name of the cathedral that contains the following mural.
What I know for sure is:
That it has been done between 2004 and 2008, more likely in 2008.
It was made in a Catholic ...
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Why the English version of rosary doesn't insert the mystery in Hail Mary prayer?
In many languages, countries when people pray rosary they insert the mystery in Hail Mary after saying Jesus. It is used officially in public places by everyone.
For example:
Hail, Mary, full of ...
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How would Biblical Unitarians answer the questions of Proverbs 30?
Proverbs 30:2-4 says:
Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended to heaven and come ...
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Which Biblical Theology frameworks are currently taught in the Southern Baptist seminaries?
There are two major frameworks of Biblical Theology in Protestant Christianity: Dispensationaliam and Covenant Theology. Simplistically, Dispensationaliam says there is a big discontinuity between ...
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What role does the Gospel Music Association have in standardizing what is played on Contemporary Christian Music stations?
The wikipedia entry for Christian Metal says that some of the stations which do play said genre:
as a whole these larger stations generally maintain a GMA-prescribed format.
Christian metal (...
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According to Augustine, what's the difference between regenerate life and that before the fall?
In Augustine's four stages of the Christian life, is the Reborn Man in the same state as the Pre-Fall Man?
In which state was Christ the man while on earth?
[Editor's note: OP refers to the 4 stages ...
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How is the Feast of the Shipwreck of St Paul celebrated in the domestic church, that is, within the Catholic family in Malta?
The Catholic Archdiocese of Malta celebrates the Feast of the Shipwreck of St Paul on February 10 each year.
I would like to know if the domestic church has any traditional ways of celebrating this ...
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Is "formal schismatic" a useful category in practice?
Wikipedia says that formal schismatics are those who:
knowing the true nature of the Church, have personally and deliberately committed the sin of schism.
But if formal schismatics have to truly ...
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According to Roman Catholicism, can the death penalty for heresy be squared with any New Testament teaching?
Much of the background for this question comes from comments and answers to this question: Is the statement "That heretics be burned is against the will of the Spirit." still a statement ...
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Do Biblical Unitarians worship Jesus or venerate him?
In this Biblical Unitarian answer to a question asking after differences in the way that Catholics view Mary vs. how Biblical Unitarians view Jesus there appears the following:
Like Mary in ...
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The Golden Mass of Our Lady?
I spent many, many years in France and while there I read some older liturgical books that explained what the Golden Mass of Our Lady was. These all explained that the Mass in question was in reality ...
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