Some Catholic thoughts on The Purpose-Driven Life Book

[XanaDUer]

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2005/0512fea2.asp


No faithful Catholic can accept the "Purpose-Driven" approach to Scripture. Catholics already possess "the full and living gospel" (Catechism of the Catholic Church 77; see also CCC 76–83). To begin with, at every Mass, Catholics hear the living, authoritative, and complete word of God proclaimed by Christ’s body, the Church. With access to the inseparable triad of Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Church’s magisterium, the faithful Catholic stands firmly on the full gospel—all that Christ wanted us to believe and do—and escapes being blown around by private interpretations of Scripture, politically correct doctrines, and theological fads...

[DemBones DemBones]

1. That was a good article. I learned a lot about

Rick Warren's theology and Saddleback Church -- who knew it was a theme park complete with Red Sea that parts on command?

Ah,sola scriptura, the Protestant Credo.