Sunday, May 06, 2007

Catholics vs Roman Catholics

In light of Beckwith's Roman return and resignation, I hope evangelicals will take to heart this point by Scott Clark:
Please, let us speak of Roman Catholics. The confessional Reformed Churches do not cede the term "catholic" to Rome. We have always insisted that the great sin of the Council of Trent was that it wasn't truly catholic (universal) at all. Indeed, many of the decisions taken a Trent were sectarian. Chief among those sectarian decisions was their condemnation of the gospel of justification sola gratia, sola fide.