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Book Description<\/h2>\n

In all the confusion of the contemporary religious scene, one Church claims to abide changeless in her message and authority. From the first, and through the ages, she claims to stand by one faith. Thus, with Louis XVI, multitudes have seen her as the sure way to paradise: ‘I die,’ said the French king, ‘in union with our Holy mother, the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church which holds its powers uninterrupted from St. Peter.’ ‘I believe in what the Catholic Church holds and teaches,’ declared the Duchess of Kent on her recent conversion.<\/p>\n

But, asks William Webster, is this true? And he answers the question not by debating texts of Scripture but by a straight appeal to the very area where the Church of Rome believes her case is strongest, the facts of history. He shows that much which Roman Catholicism now claims as part of her changeless creed was both unknown to the Church Fathers of the early centuries and directly contrary to what they did teach. This very disturbing book is no dry account of minor differences, nor is it a harsh polemic. The author writes with heart-felt interest in the welfare of the men and women who are now in a position which was once his own.<\/p>\n

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<\/td>\nIntroduction<\/td>\nix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nThe Authority of Scripture<\/i><\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nScripture and Tradition<\/i><\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nTradition and Roman Catholicism<\/i><\/td>\n22<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nThe Papacy and the \u2018Rock\u2019 of Matthew 16<\/i><\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nPapal Authority and Infallibility: The Test of History<\/i><\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nMarian Dogmas<\/i><\/td>\n72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nSalvation and the Sacramental System<\/i><\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nThe Eucharist<\/i><\/td>\n117<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nFaith and Justification<\/i><\/td>\n133<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nTruth: The Defining Issue<\/i><\/td>\n145<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAPPENDICES<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n1) The Fathers on the Meaning of Tradition and its Relationship to Scripture<\/i><\/td>\n155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n2) Vatican I and Vatican II on Papal Infallibility<\/i><\/td>\n162<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n3) The Bull Unam Sanctam by Boniface VIII<\/i><\/td>\n165<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n4) Vatican I and Vatican II on Papal Primacy<\/i><\/td>\n168<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n5) Writings of the Fathers on the Meaning of the Rock and Keys of Matthew<\/i><\/td>\n174<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n6) Letter of Gregory the Great to John of Constantinople Objecting to his Adoption of the Title Universal Bishop<\/i><\/td>\n184<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n7) The Official Teaching of the Roman Catholic Church on the Person of Mary<\/i><\/td>\n187<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n8) The Fathers on the Real Presence and the Eucharist<\/i><\/td>\n191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n9) The Fathers on the Eucharistic Sacrifice as not being Propitiatory in Nature but a Memorial of Thanksgiving and Praise<\/i><\/td>\n196<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n10) Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Faith<\/i><\/td>\n200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n11) Martin Luther and John Calvin on the Relationship Between Justification and Good Works<\/i><\/td>\n202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n12) Comments of the Fathers on the Nature of Justification<\/i><\/td>\n205<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n13) The Teaching of the Council of Trent on Justification<\/i><\/td>\n208<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNotes<\/td>\n215<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nIndex<\/td>\n236<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By appealing to the facts of history, the author refutes the claims of the Church of Rome. 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