Today's prophetic jewel comes from Katay in Theology Through History, talking about the hardening of protestant scholasticism (I can't spell) in the 17th century, and the rise of pluralism. Katay talked about what makes Roman Catholicism attractive for evangelicals is that we above all protestants like our guru's, and the "Romans" have the guru of all guru's, the vicar of Christ, and from him ex cathedra the ultimate source of biblical authority, whilst for protestants, it is just us, our conscience and our bibles (plus a few external, social influences). To be a protestant is to be very lonely. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God.
Katay also talked about the three stages of leadership that we see in the New Testament that we see in the bible; first Jesus and his authoritative teaching, actions, and achievement, secondly the apostles and their authoritative announcement of Jesus, and thirdly the the apostles good deposit, and the "apostolic descendants", which continues down till today (and where we no longer have apostles to tell us what's what). In in response to a question about the ill's of pluralism and lack of authority, Katay said, and I quote:
"Our problem isn't so much denominationalsim, our problem is a lack of apostolic authority."
Comments? Thoughts?
Well, this is late, but there are still a few minutes of Friday left. The talks this week in PM Friday are some of the best talks ever given at EU. In three magisterial talks, Andrew Katay explores the key Christian characteristics (virtues?) of faith, hope and love. Enjoy:
