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Can You Baptize Without Baptism? Review: The Ecclesiological Renovation of Vatican II
Heterodoxt and Orthodoxy ^
| 12-04-2018
| Fr. John Cox
Posted on 12/06/2018 8:39:20 AM PST by NRx
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For the record, I think the review is somewhat flawed and my thinking is more in line with that of Fr. Peter Heers. The Cypriatic position on the subject of sacraments outside the Church (there are none) has historically been the dominant position within Orthodoxy though there are minority views to the contrary. I have read the book and found it extremely cogent and better referenced than most academic papers I have come across. But even setting aside the question of the Orthodox approach to the reception of converts, the book is quite simply the best examination of the evolution of Roman Catholic ecclesiology as seen through its baptismal theology that I have ever read, period.
The comment thread at the linked website is also well worth perusing.
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posted on
12/06/2018 8:39:20 AM PST
by
NRx
To: NRx
Oops. I forgot to check the excerpt box. This is in fact an excerpt. Please read the whole thing at the linked page.
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posted on
12/06/2018 8:41:22 AM PST
by
NRx
(A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
To: NRx
Thanks for your post. I should put this on my to read list.
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posted on
12/06/2018 8:48:08 AM PST
by
Hieronymus
((It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
To: NRx
Can you admit your sins directly to God and repent of them w/o a priest? If all the priests/cleric in the world were to disappear, we could still be saved...Christ saw to that.
Might be better to ask if a priest who is more of a sinner than most of the laity can perform the blessing of the Host/serve communion/take confession/perform baptism etc...
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posted on
12/06/2018 9:02:20 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: trebb
Nice red herring argument there
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posted on
12/06/2018 9:19:42 AM PST
by
The Cuban
To: NRx
If you accept Vatican 2,
you think your church is alive.
If you reject Vatican 2,
you admit your church is dead.
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posted on
12/06/2018 10:38:14 AM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: The Cuban
How are they "red herring arguments? They are questions - if you had good answers, you wouldn't dismiss them with such smug aplomb....Christ gave us a direct line to God the Father and so many still think they need other flawed mortals to be able to save their eternal souls......even when faced with the absolute proof that those 'doing the saving" are every bit as flawed as those they supposedly save. What happened to the concept of men of the cloth being teachers instead of purveyors of "miracles"? I was baptized into the Catholic Church, had First Communion and was Confirmed.....when I started reading the Bible, I felt compelled to be baptized as a sign that I, as an aware adult, wished to publicly give myself to Christ, as the initial rite had nothing to do with my salvation.
I find it ironic that, after discovering that there are many homosexual/pedophile priests (guilty of two of the sins that so many Catholics howl are the worst of the worst), deciding that others can or can't receive communion, and supposedly transforming the wafers and wine into the body and blood, that folks don't wonder if somehow the rite wasn't tainted....while again howling how that which cannot be desecrated or defiled is somehow desecrated if someone defaces a statue of the Virgin Mary. No human can desecrate or defile The Father, Son or Holy Spirit.
I'm reminded of Peter's dream when he declared he woildn't eat what was unclean and was told that what the Lord had declared as clean, was clean......Peter's reticence was because his religion told him other than what God had proclaimed.....most religions have many areas where they do the same - all to keep the pharisees in a position of power via false mystique.
So, either ignore the questions or answer them, don't call them red herrings because you don't like them but cannot answer them.
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posted on
12/06/2018 11:05:03 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: NRx
WHY IS THE QUESTION EVEN ASKED ?
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posted on
12/06/2018 12:54:40 PM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true; I have no proof .... but they're true.)
To: NRx
The link isnt working for me.
Is it just me?
To: FourtySeven
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posted on
12/06/2018 1:30:47 PM PST
by
NRx
(A man of honor passes his father's civilization to his son without surrendering it to strangers.)
To: NRx
Ill try at home then thanks.
To: trebb
Calm down there Martin Luther
To: The Cuban
Too funny...never a rebuttal from you guys...always smug dismissals ...
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posted on
12/07/2018 2:00:28 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: trebb
Umm do some reading. Your heresy is far from new or clever.
To: trebb
Christ gave us a direct line to God the Father Christ, through his apostles, also set up a hierarchical church with a real, visible organization. If you don't believe that, I suggest you read the later Pauline epistles (what do you think "appointed overseers in every city" means?) and then read the writings of the very earliest church fathers, many of whom knew the Apostles personally.
Your "direct line to God the Father" doesn't excuse you from following the way that Christ actually prescribed, which leads directly to the organization that Christ himself set up. "If you love me, keep my commandments" comes into play here.
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posted on
12/07/2018 5:37:23 AM PST
by
Campion
((marine dad))
To: trebb
Too funny...never a rebuttal from you guys...always smug dismissals ... That's because your position requires us to simply ignore big chunks of the Bible, and ALL of church history after the composition of the NT. Are you willing to ask the hard questions of your own position, or just stick to your smug sloganeering?
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posted on
12/07/2018 5:39:55 AM PST
by
Campion
((marine dad))
To: Campion
I love how this guy pretends to have invented protestant heresy on hos own lol
To: Campion
Or how he believes the formulation I used to be a Catholic but was dumb enough to fall into heresy somehow makes his argument stronger. Ummkay. It just shows he is thicker than a brick.
To: The Cuban
Still being cryptic - how about suggesting some areas to read...you are talking Bible and not church canon crap...right?
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posted on
12/07/2018 8:23:18 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
To: Campion
Too funny - how about when He said that if we loved God with all our might (which he knew was flawed and is backed up by Paul, specially chosen by God to carry the lion's share of the Word, lamenting he found himself doing things he knew he shouldn't and not doing things he should) and loved our neighbor as ourselves, we were in fact satisfying the dictates of the Law because where there is love, there is o harm and that in and of itself satisfied the intent of the Law?
Jesus walked the earth as 100% Man and 100% God ...took the Man form so He could establish a personal relationship with Him....also, don't forget that while He still lived as a Man, He was under the constraints of the Old Covenant and had to be true to it....He is the only "Man" to have walked the earth and not broken a Commandment.
So, what was your point? When mortals get their hands on things, they necessarily tint it...if you don't believe that, then take a hard look at all the "fallen" Priests and a lot of their superiors...not to mention that the Catholic Religion considers the Pope to be "infallible" yet so many here also bad mouth him instead of just accepting their own religious teaching.
Men are needed to carry the Word, not to personally save souls - that's a personal choice between the sinner and his Savior.
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posted on
12/07/2018 8:31:25 AM PST
by
trebb
(Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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