"Why I am a Catholic"

The Corkmeister blogs, yesterday, a link to a revised edition of his story:

.... To this day, I believe that Newman's remains the best reason for a Protestant to become a Catholic. As long as Catholic converts try to argue from scripture to scripture in a fundamentalist fashion, the Protestant will win the war, if not the battle. For if apologetics is solely a matter of proof-texting, who is to say whether the Protestant or the Catholic twist is the right one? But step back, and look at the church of the post-apostolic generation, the period of Clement and Ignatius — a period in which some of the books in the New Testament were being written — and the Protestant must recognize that this is clearly a Catholic church. Christ promised Peter that upon a rock he would build his church, and the gates of hell would not prevail against it. We've spent so much time arguing about the rock that we've let the main thrust of the text get away from us! Christ promised that the Church would be maintained in purity of faith to the end; every Protestant ecclesiology demands that we deny this, and posit a global apostasy....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 11/01/04 06:37:13 PM
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