Wednesdays With Words: John Senior’s The Death of Christian Culture

The Death of Christian Culture
by John Senior

The identification of the traditional with the conventional is, of course, as old as sophistry and often serves as an opening for change.

But Christ Himself said, “Omnia mihi tradita sunt a Patre meo.” Christian doctrine is not the result of convention, though it is indeed traditional: “All things have been handed down to me by the Father.” {p. 2}

We are here at the first of the first principles. A definition that includes its contradictory is not a definition at all. {p. 5}

The only rational way for Protestants and Catholics to get along together is to practice the difficult virtue of tolerance — not to falsify their claims by ambiguities. {p. 5}

Fascinating read, so far.