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Author: Jimmy Akin
Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin
Augustine of Hippo – a Church ‘father”??! LOL
Only in the western European vacuum of “roman” catholicism are the errors of Augustine of Hippo elevated to patristic status.
The One Holy ‘Catholic’ and Apostolic Church is ‘catholic’ (universal) at all times and all places, but “roman” catholicism is a self referencing mirror that’s only ‘universal’ in and of itself.
Rome is not ‘ecumenical’, not ‘in communion’ with any of the other churches of the ecumenical councils of antiquity or their descendants because rome doesn’t share in, hasn’t taught and doesn’t teach what any of the Church taught in antiquity since the barbarians overran Rome.
Instead ‘rome’ with its Frankish barbarian ‘understanding’ has invented its own worldly ’empire’ that is reminiscent of pagan Rome, a ‘civilization’ based on the juridical rationale of the Roman law court, the innovations of Anselm of Canterbury, and the speculative rationalizations of Augustine of Hippo instead of anything Augustine wrote that was conciliar with the Church.
Unsatisfied with being first among equals, barbarian pseudo-‘christian’ Rome has historically converted her disciples by point of sword, and behaved just like any other militaristic pagan Roman regime, replete with ‘caesar’ god (‘infallible’ pope, aka ‘bishop’).
Instead of going viral with such unreality based on the Lies of Charlemagne, how about doing some research that isn’t Western European or Atlanticist propaganda?
Barbarian modern ‘rome’ is rooted in ‘false type’ of thelogy based on rationalistic speculation not ‘vision of god’ (which comes from purity (repentance) of heart, as defined in the Beatitudes).
See –
http://vimeo.com/7342423
http://Romanity.org
http://lifegivingspring.info/LGS/simple/#2
http://www.pelagia.org/htm/ar03.en.the_picture_of_the_modern_world.htm
“False types in theology often lead to false models of living and this results in collective false traditions being inserted into our communities. The final result is an anti-Christian image of the meaning of our life and of the world. Thus, the process of moulding one’s life according to the image of the life of the Holy Trinity is obscured and even obliterated. Then, secular types of living prevail and Christians are little by little identified with the rest of the world. The light is extinguished, the witness of our hope is weakened and our expectation, the expectation of the redemption of the whole universe, according to the apostle, is deformed and neglected. Then, people call themselves Christians but in truth they are no more. The whole orientation of their communities, even of their own personal lives is set according to anti-Christian standards. This is what happened in the historical West, where the wrongful theology adopted in the years before the schism evolved into a clearly anti-Christian culture during the Middle Ages and eventually in the pagan-oriented, humanistic and utilitarian civilization of the Enlightenment, that is still present to this day and defines the goals of our modern society.”
– Archbishop Lazar Puhalo
On Types and Icons
http://www.zephyr.gr/stjohn/misc1.htm
http://lifegivingspring.info/LGS/about/
D. Stall.
It’s good to see that you acknowledge the infallibility and primacy of the successor of Peter. That’s a position consistent with the history of the early Church both East and West.
Sadly, some of the schismatic churches of the East choose to remain separated from the successor of Peter. Further, they are all not in union with each other.
It’s even more distressing that you don’t appear to be in communion with the various Eastern Orthodox who refer to Augustine of Hippo as St. Augustine the Blessed.
Dominus Vobiscum
Wow! Bigots just can’t hold in their hate and irrationality, can they?
Oooooooh, that’s some fancy html you’ve got there. I’ve only seen that on facebook.
And, *unlike* Facebook, I didn’t tag anybody as being in the photo who is *not* in the photo!
D.Stall,
You are obviously passionate! But, I am so distracted by my own imagining you doing the two-finger-quotation thing about 19 times through your dissertation there.
Jimmy, I’m surprised you didn’t call the person on that one! haha, taking the high road on this one? Actually, can we get a little translation on what point this person is trying to make? They are using way too many big words to keep that post understandable, and I very much enjoy vocabulary, but that seemed over the top!
OK, who let the Ku Klux Klan members into this combox?
And the answer to the question asked is:
It looks like The Boss (the real one, not Bruce Springsteen) with a bunch of his closest friends.