Hello my brothers and sisters,
Since my last post, I have had a chance to skim several chapters of Roman Catholicsm (a VERY poorly chosen and misleading title, since this book COMPELETLY misrepresents the faith), and while I have not read the book page by page word by word, one thing is PAINFULLY clear. Dr. Boettner's book lacks citations of sources, and worse, the citations that are there, are done badly that it seems like he was deliberately trying to avoid someone looking it up. I have with my own eyes affirmed what Karl Keating asserted in his book Catholicsm and Fundamentalism. I hold a Bachelor's degree in sociology.. and in order to graduate, I had to write a 122 page thesis, and cite numerous sources. I had to use APA format, which makes it easy to link author to source text. Every sentence, every claim I made in my senior thesis I had to substantiate with a reference. Perhaps Boettner did not have time to do a thorough study and cite all his sources. But still, if his work is to be regarded as the definitive anti-Catholic work, and it does indeed have that standing amongst Protestants, or did at one time, then it needs to be better done. It's one thing to make valid claims against the Church and cite sources. It's quite another to make baseless accusations and print them as fact.
Lord, may your Holy Spirit guide all to truth. Amen.
Since my last post, I have had a chance to skim several chapters of Roman Catholicsm (a VERY poorly chosen and misleading title, since this book COMPELETLY misrepresents the faith), and while I have not read the book page by page word by word, one thing is PAINFULLY clear. Dr. Boettner's book lacks citations of sources, and worse, the citations that are there, are done badly that it seems like he was deliberately trying to avoid someone looking it up. I have with my own eyes affirmed what Karl Keating asserted in his book Catholicsm and Fundamentalism. I hold a Bachelor's degree in sociology.. and in order to graduate, I had to write a 122 page thesis, and cite numerous sources. I had to use APA format, which makes it easy to link author to source text. Every sentence, every claim I made in my senior thesis I had to substantiate with a reference. Perhaps Boettner did not have time to do a thorough study and cite all his sources. But still, if his work is to be regarded as the definitive anti-Catholic work, and it does indeed have that standing amongst Protestants, or did at one time, then it needs to be better done. It's one thing to make valid claims against the Church and cite sources. It's quite another to make baseless accusations and print them as fact.
Lord, may your Holy Spirit guide all to truth. Amen.
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