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The Roman Catholic Church A Critical Appraisal
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Book Synopsis The Roman Catholic Church - A Critical Appraisal by : Hendrick Park
Download or read book The Roman Catholic Church - A Critical Appraisal written by Hendrick Park and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Catholic Church is the largest denomination with 1.1 billion adherents. Recently the pope Benedict XVI reasserted that the Catholic Church is the only true church founded by Christ. Today there is a pervasive indifference as to the question what is the true Christianity. This is a serious situation because there are numerous false or only partly true versions of Christianity. The author of this book attempts a critical appraisal of the Roman Catholic Church by the criteria of the Bible and history. The conclusion he reached is that the Catholic Church is a perversion of the Christianity of the New Testament. The author believes that he has substantiated the proposition that there are many unbiblical pagan elements in the Church. To give one example the monarchical papacy and the authoritarian church structure developed after the model of the authoritarian government of the ancient Roman Empire. No wonder that its official name is the Roman Catholic Church. A theologian and a minister. Received a doctorate in systematic theology from the University of Toronto. He did the ministerial work for 17 years in the United Church of Canada. Took early retirement in 1990 to study and write books, which is, he feels, the talent and his main vocation he has received from God. He respects the Bible as containing the revealed word of God. According to the prophets of God "justice and mercy" and the pure preservation of the true religion of God are God's two major concerns. He believes that God's major concerns should be all Christians' major concerns as well. "The Roman Catholic Church - A Critical Appraisal" was written from that perspective in order to attest to the true religion of God and to keep Christians from heading onto the wrong path.
Book Synopsis The Roman Catholic Church’S Arrogant False Claims by : Hendrick Park
Download or read book The Roman Catholic Church’S Arrogant False Claims written by Hendrick Park and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Catholic Churchs Arrogant False Claims grounds its critique of that bodys doctrines, pronouncements and practices on the authoritative teachings embedded in the Bible. The author, Hendrick Park, a retired minister of the United Church of Canada, brings to his analysis insights gained from his work on a doctoral degree in theology from Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, and his research for two other books: The Roman Catholic ChurchA Critical Appraisal and What is the True Christianity? When Jesus spent forty days in the wilderness and faced the devils temptations, he responded three times with bold claims that the people of God ought to trust in the authority of Gods word. As heirs to that witness to the truth of life with God, Christians in todays church are called to preach, teach and live together in the same wayleaning on Gods word. The Roman Catholic Churchs Arrogant False Claims enumerates the churchs claims, offers a critique, reviews the churchs history, evaluates the papacy and the actions of the Second Vatican Council and analyzes the churchs doctrines and dogmas. This treatment of the significant issues facing half of the worlds Christians brings the Scriptures into conversation with the practices and teachings of the churchs largest single tradition. Whether you find those claims attractive or alarming, you will discover in The Roman Catholic Churchs Arrogant False Claims food for your thoughtful reflections on the faith.
Book Synopsis Clerical Celibacy Under Fire by : Edward Schillebeeckx
Download or read book Clerical Celibacy Under Fire written by Edward Schillebeeckx and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature by : Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
Download or read book The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature written by Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ad Limina Apostolorum by : Karl Barth
Download or read book Ad Limina Apostolorum written by Karl Barth and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Barth, because of poor health, was unable to accept the invitation to be an observer at the final two sessions of Vatican II. When his condition improved, however, he was eager to make a trip to Rome to learn firsthand how the Council decisions were understood at the heart of Catholicism. The Secretariat for Christian Unity readily agreed, and so Barth made his pilgrimage "to the threshold of the Apostles" September 22-29, 1966. Included here are an account of Barth's trip to Rome, questions for clarification and critical questions he asked, an essay about the Constitution on Divine Revelation, a letter on Mariology to a German Catholic theologian, and an appendix on Barth's thoughts about Vatican II before its work was completed. He calls for Protestants to take a lesson from the stirrings of renewal within the Roman Church and "sweep away the dust before the door of our own church with a careful but nevertheless mighty broom."
Book Synopsis Women's Participation in the "People's Church" by : Sonia E. Alvarez
Download or read book Women's Participation in the "People's Church" written by Sonia E. Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed case studies of two community women's groups in the periphery of metropolitan Sao Paulo, Brazil, this paper explores the theory and practice of the Church's mobilization of poor and working class women and examines the long-term implications of women's increased participation in the Latin American People's Church. It outlines the causes and consequences of the post-Vatican II Church's theological reformulation of women's roles and identifies ways in which the progressive Church's failure to critique women's traditional roles constrains women's empowerment as citizens and as women. The study concludes that the new Church strategy of encouraging women to participate in community life is marred by a fundamental contradiction: while the Church now advocates women's participation in the public sphere, women's oppression in the private sphere hinders their ability to fully participate in community life.
Book Synopsis The Failure of Natural Theology by : Jeffrey D Johnson
Download or read book The Failure of Natural Theology written by Jeffrey D Johnson and published by New Studies in Theology Series. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristotle's cosmological argument is the foundation of Aquinas's doctrine of God. For Thomas, the cosmological argument not only speaks of God's existence but also of God's nature. By learning that the unmoved mover is behind all moving objects, we learn something true about the essence of God-principally, that God is immobile. But therein lies the problem for Thomas. The Catholic Church had already condemned Aristotle's unmoved mover because, according to Aristotle, the unmoved mover is unable to be the moving cause (i.e., Creator) and governor of the universe-or else he would cease to be immobile. By seeking to baptize Aristotle into the Catholic Church, however, Thomas gave his life to seeking to explain how God can be both immobile and the moving cause of the universe. Thomas even looked to the pantheistic philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius for help. But even with Dionysius's aid, Thomas failed to reconcile the god of Aristotle with the Trinitarian God of the Bible. If Thomas would have rejected the natural theology of Aristotle by placing the doctrine of the Trinity, which is known only by divine revelation, at the foundation of his knowledge of God, he would have rid himself of the irresolvable tension that permeates his philosophical theology. Thomas could have realized that the Trinity alone allows for God to be the only self-moving being-because the Trinity is the only being not moved by anything outside himself but freely capable of creating and controlling contingent things in motion.
Book Synopsis The Unintended Reformation by : Brad S. Gregory
Download or read book The Unintended Reformation written by Brad S. Gregory and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism—all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement that marked the end of more than a millennium during which Christianity provided a framework for shared intellectual, social, and moral life in the West. Before the Protestant Reformation, Western Christianity was an institutionalized worldview laden with expectations of security for earthly societies and hopes of eternal salvation for individuals. The Reformation’s protagonists sought to advance the realization of this vision, not disrupt it. But a complex web of rejections, retentions, and transformations of medieval Christianity gradually replaced the religious fabric that bound societies together in the West. Today, what we are left with are fragments: intellectual disagreements that splinter into ever finer fractals of specialized discourse; a notion that modern science—as the source of all truth—necessarily undermines religious belief; a pervasive resort to a therapeutic vision of religion; a set of smuggled moral values with which we try to fertilize a sterile liberalism; and the institutionalized assumption that only secular universities can pursue knowledge. The Unintended Reformation asks what propelled the West into this trajectory of pluralism and polarization, and finds answers deep in our medieval Christian past.
Book Synopsis The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature by :
Download or read book The Critical Review of Theological and Philosophical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Critical Appraisal of Marriage as Sacrament by Catholic Theologians by : John Jay Mann (Jr.)
Download or read book A Critical Appraisal of Marriage as Sacrament by Catholic Theologians written by John Jay Mann (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis first examines current crises that marriage faces today and how the Church will need to address those issues in the new millennium. This thesis then takes an in-depth look at marriage as sacrament using an historical and systematic approach using the works of several Roman Catholic authors. Lastly, the thesis focuses on theological and pastoral concerns for marriage."--Introduction, p.1.
Book Synopsis The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity by : Lene Kühle
Download or read book The Critical Analysis of Religious Diversity written by Lene Kühle and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a selection of trans-contextual case studies within religious diversity scholarship to develop a series of theoretical and methodological considerations for scholars to utilize when they conduct their own studies of religious diversity.
Book Synopsis The Roman Catholic Religion Viewed in the Light of Prophecy and History: Its Final Downfall, and the Triumph of the Church of Christ (1843) by : William Craig Brownlee
Download or read book The Roman Catholic Religion Viewed in the Light of Prophecy and History: Its Final Downfall, and the Triumph of the Church of Christ (1843) written by William Craig Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Book Synopsis Who Do We Think We Are? by : Christopher A. Fallon
Download or read book Who Do We Think We Are? written by Christopher A. Fallon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This empirical study explores how the sampled priests understand their priesthood. Chris A. Fallon reviews Liverpool's history of expansion and decline, which has left fewer and older priests serving fewer active Catholics and an undiminished number who still require baptisms, first communions, marriages and funerals. It contrasts the models of priesthood found in Liverpool with American studies of the cultic and servant leader models of priesthood, taking into account the theological viewpoints and personality profiles of the individuals who took part.
Book Synopsis Church and State in America: A Bibliographical Guide by : Bloomsbury Publishing
Download or read book Church and State in America: A Bibliographical Guide written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1987-08-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second in a two-volume bibliography on church-state relations in U.S. history, this book contains eleven critical essays and accompanying bibliographical listings on periods or topics from the Civil War to the present day. Each essay reviews the available relevant literature, and the listings emphasize critical studies and documents published in the last quarter-century. This reference work will enable the reader to grasp the historiographic issues, become acquainted with the resources available, and move on to interpret current as well as past issues more knowledgebly and effectively.
Book Synopsis Instrumental Data for Drug Analysis, Second Edition by : Terry Mills, III
Download or read book Instrumental Data for Drug Analysis, Second Edition written by Terry Mills, III and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1992-09-17 with total page 1860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled with the most sophisticated chromatographic and spectrometric instruments available, this complete and self-contained seven-volume reference provides forensic, toxicology, and clinical laboratories with up-to-date information on 1,600 drugs and drug-related compounds-one of the largest collections of analytical data generated from a single source. Instrumental Data for Drug Analysis contains timely, quality data presented in a large, easily usable format. It is an essential reference in the libraries of all toxicology, analytical chemistry, and forensic specialists and laboratories.
Book Synopsis Communication Habits for the Pilgrim Church by : Warren Anthony Kappeler
Download or read book Communication Habits for the Pilgrim Church written by Warren Anthony Kappeler and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication has become an important theme and heuristic concept in practical theology for Roman Catholics during the ecumenical age. Communication Habits for the Pilgrim Church explains why the moral order is given priority in Vatican teaching about communication and the reasons for Catholic social teaching to make moral judgments about these new realities. Attention is given in the book to the historical context of Vatican Councils I and II. The first chapter shows that behind the pilgrim Church lies an emerging vision of the threefold ecclesial offices of priest, prophet, and king. Chapter two examines the text and context of the Second Vatican Council's pastoral decree «Inter Mirifica». Chapter three provides a documented history of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communication and its teachings. In chapter four we return to the threefold office and examine the contribution of Pope John Paul II. It includes an analysis of how the politics of the Magisterium shapes Catholic social teaching. Chapter five develops major tenets of a critical analysis of the communication of the post-Vatican II Church: attention is given to the discursive aspects of religious authority, argumentation, bureaucratization, and market culture. Chapter six takes a step toward examining the pragmatics of contemporary Vatican teaching. For Roman Catholic moral theology, religious ethics is now deeply concerned with providing moral teaching and guidance on ethical questions raised by the social conditions of globalization and media communication. Communication Habits for the Pilgrim Church concludes that there are three basic sociological and theological aspects of the pilgrim Church. These include a ritual approach to religious communication, the generational experience of Catholics and their respective attitudes toward Church teaching, and the important link in the faith's praxis between reflexivity and forming habits of communication.
Book Synopsis The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional by : Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy
Download or read book The Priest, the Woman and the Confessional written by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Priest, the Woman, & the Confessional is a look at women's role in confessionals. It takes a look at different ideas within the church, served by a former Roman Catholic priest.
