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What Ever Happened to Catholic Authority?
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15880 |
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MODERN THOUGHT
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1 / 1989 |
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James J. Thompson, Jr.
James J. Thompson, Jr., is the book review editor for The New
Oxford Review. He has written three books: Tried as by Fire:
Southern Baptists and the Religious Controversies of the 1920s
(Mercer University Press, 1982); Christian Classics Revisited
(Ignatius Press, 1983); and Fleeing the Whore of Babylon: A
Modern Conversion Story (Christian Classics, Inc., 1986). He
has coedited (with George M. Curtis III) The Southern Essays
of Richard M. Weaver (Liberty Press, 1987). |
And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this
rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys
of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on
earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt
loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
--Matt 16:18-19
The greatest religious event of our era will prove to have
been the signal transformation of the Roman Catholic Church
by the Vatican Council…For the Roman Catholic Church was
the last real stronghold of the kind of authority that lies
in religious institutions, in ritual and in sacraments. To
an astonishing degree it had resisted the acids of
modernity which in the Protestant faiths had virtually
destroyed the sense of visible community in religion and
that had driven more and more of their members either out
of religion altogether or to the work of secularizing these
faiths in the interests of either politics or
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