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Catholicism and the Emergent Church
McLaren also shows his prejudice against Evangelicalism by insinuating that believers first started placing their trust solely in the written Word of God during the sixteenth-century Reformation. He is wrong — as is demonstrated by the history of the Vaudois, Albigenses and Waldenses (among others).
What he never admits is that the authority of the Roman papacy was not fully established until near the end of the eleventh century, when Rome forced people to submit to her ecclesiastical dictates by crusades and the Inquisition.
Many refused. Uncountable millions were robbed, tortured and martyred because they held to the authority of the Bible and refused to accept Roman Catholic doctrines and traditions. At one point, McLaren admits that he is being unfair in his presentation of English history, but he does not apologise or correct his illicit revision of historical fact.
Nor does he mention that it was the papacy that locked away the Bible from the common people during the Middle Ages, permitting only their Latin version which only the clergy could have. It is a well-established historical fact that even in the fourth century the bishops of Milan were in no way subject to the bishops of Rome and used the Bible alone as their authority.
They had only two sacraments (baptism and communion), prayed to God alone (not Saints or Mary), and allowed no images of the Deity.2 The Vaudois of the Cottian Alps in that same area were by the ninth century known for their apostolic faith in the Bible alone, as Claude, Bishop of Turin, makes clear.
The tenets of these ancient churches of the Alps were essentially the same as those proclaimed by the Reformers of the sixteenth century. The same is true of the Albigenses, against whom the papacy sent its first domestic crusade in the thirteenth century. Thomas M’Crie gives an amazingly similar report of historical facts regarding the pre-Reformation believers in Spain in the sixth century.3
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McLaren also shows his prejudice against Evangelicalism by insinuating that believers first started placing their trust solely in the written Word of God during the sixteenth-century Reformation. He is wrong — as is demonstrated by the history of the Vaudois, Albigenses and Waldenses (among others).
What he never admits is that the authority of the Roman papacy was not fully established until near the end of the eleventh century, when Rome forced people to submit to her ecclesiastical dictates by crusades and the Inquisition.
Many refused. Uncountable millions were robbed, tortured and martyred because they held to the authority of the Bible and refused to accept Roman Catholic doctrines and traditions. At one point, McLaren admits that he is being unfair in his presentation of English history, but he does not apologise or correct his illicit revision of historical fact.
Nor does he mention that it was the papacy that locked away the Bible from the common people during the Middle Ages, permitting only their Latin version which only the clergy could have. It is a well-established historical fact that even in the fourth century the bishops of Milan were in no way subject to the bishops of Rome and used the Bible alone as their authority.
They had only two sacraments (baptism and communion), prayed to God alone (not Saints or Mary), and allowed no images of the Deity.2 The Vaudois of the Cottian Alps in that same area were by the ninth century known for their apostolic faith in the Bible alone, as Claude, Bishop of Turin, makes clear.
The tenets of these ancient churches of the Alps were essentially the same as those proclaimed by the Reformers of the sixteenth century. The same is true of the Albigenses, against whom the papacy sent its first domestic crusade in the thirteenth century. Thomas M’Crie gives an amazingly similar report of historical facts regarding the pre-Reformation believers in Spain in the sixth century.3
more