Roman Catholicism
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Roman Catholicism sets forth the differences between evangelical Protestantism and the Roman Catholic Church, both in regard to doctrine and in regard to the practical effects of Catholicism and Protestantism in the lives of ordinary believers. Boettner urges the evangelical community to draw from the apostolic church and from Scripture to discern the proper mode of belief and practice. He shows that the beginnings of Protestantism lie not in the fourteenth century, but in the belief and practice of the Early Church.
Top Highlights
“The distinctive attitude of the present day Roman Church was fixed largely by the Council of Trent (1545–1563), with its more than 100 anathemas or curses pronounced against all who then or in the future would dare to differ with its decisions.” (Page 9)
“It sets forth the pope’s claim to be ‘the successor of Peter, the Vicar of Christ” (Page xi)
“This document on the Church repeats in substance the teaching of the Council of Trent that ‘Priests and bishops are the representatives of God on earth.… Justly, therefore, they are called not only angels, but gods, holding as they do the place and authority of God on earth,’ and that the priests have ‘the power of consecrating and offering the body and blood of our Lord and of remitting sins’ (Cathechism of Trent).” (Page xi)
“‘Temples, incense, oil lamps, votive offerings, holy water, holy days and seasons of devotion, processions, blessings of fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure (of priests, monks and nuns), images, etc., are all of pagan origin’ (p. 359).” (Page 10)
“But in the Greek the word Peter is Petros, a person, masculine, while the word ‘rock,’ petra, is feminine and refers not to a person but to the declaration of Christ’s deity that Peter had just uttered—‘Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.’” (Page 105)
Product Details
- Title: Roman Catholicism
- Author: Loraine Boettner
- Publisher: P&R
- Publication Date: 1962
- Pages: 466
About Loraine Boettner
Loraine Boettner was born in 1901 in Linden, Missouri. He studied agriculture at the University of Missouri, but graduated with a B.S. after transferring to Tarkio Presbyterian College. In 1925, Boettner began his studies at Princeton, where he was influenced by the writings of Charles Hodge. He graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary with a Th.B. in 1928 and a Th.M. in 1929. He later received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1933 and a Doctor of Literature degree in 1957. From 1935 to 1939, Boettner also worked at Christianity Today, and worked at the Library of Congress and for the Internal Revenue Service. He continued to write and publish theological works—his most popular The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, based on his Th.M. thesis, and Roman Catholicism. He died on January 3, 1990.
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Reviews
11 ratings
Ree S Medeiros
11/5/2022
Pastor Don Robertson
10/14/2020
ruston
3/9/2020
I'm a reformed Baptist. Picked up several books from protestant and Catholic POV to compare the difference. Honestly I did not like this work. It did not appear to me to be neutral at all. The author was very much writing from protestant angel and deriding Catholic reasoning as absurd without giving any credence to their logic. If you're like me, just studying to know the difference and understand it better, don't go with this book. I liked "roman caholisism; Moody" and "a biblical defense of Catholicism" by dave armstrong.Maikel Bolos
10/14/2019
Lincoln A. Bovee'
4/14/2018
Stephen M. Zumbo
10/14/2016
Debra W Bouey
2/25/2016
Harlan P. Hock Jr
2/2/2016
Buyer beware! This is a key anti-Catholic book of its period that has lead many to believe lies about the Church.
Anthony Perrone
1/21/2016
Classic Anti Catholic bigotry from the last century. It is amazing that a 21st century platform would carry with this description what has been called by many Catholic Apologists as the Protestant mein kampf. Such bigotry has no place in modern evangelical circles. Poorly researched, few footnotes, and discredited by both Catholics and Evangelicals, only if you truly disdain the Roman Catholic church should this tome ever darken your library. To be avoided except for historical purposes.Robert Leahy
5/28/2014
