Continued discussion of the book "Reformation" by Dermott McCulloch. Which of course is not that bad really!
To return to a discussion of the "unreadable splodge" referred to elsewhere - there is extensive and over-wrought discussion of the significance of the word "Catholic" - a necessity in this topic.
Nowhere are the following two facts simply stated.
i) It is a Greek word simply meaning "Universal."
ii) The word appears (effectively on its own) in the Nicene Creed of 325 AD.
Neither is it stated clearly that the term and concept "Reformation" come directly from the Catholic/Universalist tradition - "semper reformandum."
It hardly needs to be said that this book shows a degree of bias. Most pointedly with regard to events in Renaissance England.
It may be more helpful to talk of "Universalists" and "Dissenters"; as much as "Catholics" and "Protestants".
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2018.
I am now much more of a cultural Christian. If I have a sympathy for Catholicism it is merely out of a desire for unity and humanity, rather than any kind of dogma.
To return to a discussion of the "unreadable splodge" referred to elsewhere - there is extensive and over-wrought discussion of the significance of the word "Catholic" - a necessity in this topic.
Nowhere are the following two facts simply stated.
i) It is a Greek word simply meaning "Universal."
ii) The word appears (effectively on its own) in the Nicene Creed of 325 AD.
Neither is it stated clearly that the term and concept "Reformation" come directly from the Catholic/Universalist tradition - "semper reformandum."
It hardly needs to be said that this book shows a degree of bias. Most pointedly with regard to events in Renaissance England.
It may be more helpful to talk of "Universalists" and "Dissenters"; as much as "Catholics" and "Protestants".
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2018.
I am now much more of a cultural Christian. If I have a sympathy for Catholicism it is merely out of a desire for unity and humanity, rather than any kind of dogma.