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The Early Papacy - To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451 (Paperback, 4th ed.)
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The Early Papacy - To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451 (Paperback, 4th ed.)
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Adrian Fortescue, a British apologist for the Catholic faith in the
early part of the 20th century, wrote this classic of clear
exposition on the faith of the early Church in the papacy based
upon the writings of the Church fathers until 451. No
ultramontanist, Fortescue can be a keen critic of personal failings
of various Popes, but he shows through his brilliant assessment of
the writings of the Church fathers that the early Church had a
clear understanding of the primacy of Peter and a belief in the
divinely given authority of the Pope in matters of faith and
morals. Referring to the famous passage in Matthew 16: 18 where
Jesus confers his authority upon Peter as the head of the Apostles,
and the first Pope, Fortescue says that, while Christians can
continue to argue about the exact meaning of that passage from
Scripture, and the various standards that are used for judgments
about correct Christian teaching and belief, the only possible real
standard is a living authority, an authority alive in the world at
this moment, that can answer your difficulties, reject a false
theory as it arises and say who is right in disputed
interpretations of ancient documents. Fortescue shows that the
papacy actually seems to be one of the clearest and easiest dogmas
to prove from the early Church. And it is his hope through this
work that it will contribute to a ressourcement with regard to the
office of the papacy among those in communion with the Bishop of
Rome, and that it will assist those outside this communion to seek
it out, confident that it is willed by Christ for all who would be
joined to him in this life and in the next.
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