My response to Carl Trueman on Catholics v. Evangelicals elicited this discussion.
The opposition is coming from an Anglican friend of mine.
Hat Tip: Jeff Steel
My response to Carl Trueman on Catholics v. Evangelicals elicited this discussion.
The opposition is coming from an Anglican friend of mine.
Hat Tip: Jeff Steel
Ugh. That was almost real-time. Wish there had been more time to make a real case “against.” Maybe later this week…
Another thing. I think since Vatican II (and in a much more minor sense, ECT on our side of the discussion), there has been a real tendency to downplay the serious issue of differences in authority in the Protestant/Catholic dialogue on both sides, even though I agree with you that
When the [insert your denom here] spreads over five continents with millions upon millions of members I will have some basis for making claims about what sort of uniformity such a body should be able to maintain in her ranks.
I’ve almost never engaged in anti-Catholic apologetics and can’t stand being around the people who spend 50% of their ministry on it (a certain Reformed Baptist comes to mind), but I also can’t help but be humoured by the recent caricature of Catholic Biblical authority by a Reformed blogger:
“Yes, the Bible is supremely authoritative in all it says. The Magisterium tells me what it says though, and tells me some other things that are supremely authortative in what they say, of course not erring or contradicting what the Bible says”