Modern Reformation Conversations – The Inventions of Rome
Jan.17, 2013 by
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Interviews, Modern Reformation, Videos
This month, we sat down with Dr. W. R. Godfrey, president of Westminster Seminary California and Teaching Fellow at Ligonier Ministries to talk about the ancient church, Roman supremacy, and the changing winds of Trent and Vatican II.
January 21st, 2013 at 11:47 pm
[...] the first video, Robert Godfrey briefly reflects (7 minutes) on a recent article in Modern Reformation about the changes of the Roman Catholic Church over its history. Of course, one can’t [...]
January 22nd, 2013 at 8:58 pm
David Wells “Revolution in Rome” nailed the changes from Vatican II 30 years ago, and is still unsurpassed. Amerio’s “Iota Unum” from the Roman perspective is also unanswerable. I think Godfrey’s comments regarding modern Catholicism are actually understated, and I wonder how much reading he has done here (LOL). The shift in doctrine towards Universalism a la Hans von Balthasar and JPII, and the onset of skeptical modern Scriptural scholarship has produced changes. The change is not just that people don’t always follow the Pope, but that the Popes no longer feel obliged to follow older doctrinal positions. Ratzinger himself had early works put on the suspect list by the Holy Office, and now he is Pope! The astounding thing today is that Ratzinger is able to lobby for tradition in one breath while also pushing the Vatican II reforms. It is producing a cognitive dissonance that can’t go on forever within Catholicism. For every Beckwith that converts there is a David Gibson to frustrate the mix. And voices like Scott Hahn’s that champion Benedict XVIs Biblicism seem to willfully ignore his critical disregard for the historicity of much of the bIblical narrative. Strange times.
January 25th, 2013 at 2:12 pm
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