Reply to the Bishop of Ripon's Attack on the Catholic Church (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Layman, A.

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ISBN 10 : 1330361253 ISBN 13 : 9781330361252

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Reply to the Bishop of Ripon's Attack on the Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic, whoever he may be, is forbidden to interpret a single verse of Scripture except as the Church has interpreted it, and except as he finds it to be according to the unanimous consent of the fathers. But I say without hesita tion that the unanimous consent of the fathers is a phantom which eludes every attempt to reach it. You can never discover it. You can never possibly find Where it is. You can never be sure that you have that unanimous consent, without which the Church of Rome prohibits you to interpret a single verse of God's Holy Word.

All this we should be disposed to agree to, in the sense in which the Bishop intends it. It is absolutely impossible for any private individual to form complete, infallible appreciation of all the teaching of all the Fathers on all doctrines. But this is not what the Church means to teach. What the Church teaches is this: that a consensus of the Fathers on any given doctrine is a determining point in her teaching; and that since the Church is the sole mistress of truth, it belongs to her to interpret the Fathers. Here and there a Father might be wrong; as where St. Cyprian got wrong upon Baptism, but subsequently submitted to right teaching. In such case, the Church, being judge of all doctrine, would correct a doctor where he might happen to be in error, and he would submit to the Church. Where the Church has not defined a particular truth, it is open to theologians to discuss it but where the Vicar of God has set his seal on a truth.

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Excerpt from Reply to the Bishop of Ripon's Attack on the Catholic Church

The Bishop of Ripon has preached a Sermon in his Cathedral against the errors of the Catholic Church. His Lordship's sermon is the most satisfactory answer to the positions which he himself takes up. He says that "mistakes in religion may lead to consequences fatal to the soul's salvation and then he proceeds to revile that sole authority which can prevent men from making mistakes. He speaks of "the necessity of some fixed standard of appeal;" and then argues that no such standard of appeal is to be found on the face of the earth. He asks, "Whom can we trust?" And then, having stated that we cannot trust the Church, he shows conspicuously that we cannot trust him. "Human opinions are proverbially uncertain and fluctuating," very truthfully observes his Lordship; after which he goes on to elaborately prove that Protestant opinions are human. This is the sort of reasoning to which we are daily accustomed from the modern apostles of Protestantism. It is no fault of the Bishop that he cannot discourse upon authority without being inconsistent and illogical; because his position obliges him to make assertions which are negatived by sense and by fact. To be a Protestant is to be necessarily inconsistent; nor can we help feeling compassion for the champions of a heresy which is without parallel in the kingdom of fallacies.

To attempt to "answer" the Bishop would be to attempt to write a book; since he touches on a score of different subjects - everyone of them involving much thought. It will suffice that we merely sketch the kind of criticism we should offer, were we gravely to undertake such a task.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330361253
• ISBN 13: 9781330361252
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 54
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