If I'm wrong post a citation from the Westminster or
Roman catechism that says we don't have to give a reason for our beliefs.
The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end of the Council of Trent, taught that the power of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil authorities and that the use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the fifth commandment.
Not exact matches
Roman Catholics have their
Catechism, confessional Lutherans have their Book of Concord and Presbyterians have the Westminster Confession of Faith.
Atheists actually do have beliefs and doctrines; it was taught in the USSR just like
catechism is taught in a
Roman Catholic school.
Romans 11 indicates that sometime in the future the Jewish people as a whole will recognize their messiah and «all Israel will be saved»; The
Catechism of the Catholic Church identifies this as one of the signs that precedes the Lord's return.
Since not only the
Catechism but even the
Roman Rite itself, in the Liturgy of the Hours, uses Tertullian (Thursday of the third week of Lent; the feast of Ss Philip and James), this would clearly be an impossible position.
Roman Catholicism, long before Vatican II, began to stress
catechism, preaching and the translation of scripture into the vernacular.
«The
Roman Catholic reader of this
Catechism will learn little, if anything, of the Reformation debates over this matter or of Protestant sensitivities over
Roman Catholic teaching.
Alister McGrath is right in saying that the
Catechism «must be in the hands of every person concerned with the future of evangelical relations with
Roman Catholicism.»
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