RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
June 28, 2015 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2015 at 11:00 am by Randy Carson.)
(June 28, 2015 at 10:45 am)Esquilax Wrote:(June 28, 2015 at 10:39 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Have you ever read a book of Catholic theology? If so, which one?
Yeah, I'm not willing to do that, mainly because there's no guarantee that what I read will match what any given catholic believes, and if I'm going to be committing any time at all to discussing things that I don't believe, I'd rather that time be spent discussing the actual beliefs of the people I'm talking to, rather than something that only might be.
But it is ENTIRELY possible to read what the Catholic Church teaches - there is the Catechism of the Catholic Church, for example, as well as many authors who are completely faithful to that teaching.
Discussing what any one Catholic believes may or may not provide you with a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine depending on who you talk to. This would be not unlike talking to a group of underclassmen about advanced physics when you have the textbook and the author of that textbook available to you.
Quote:We have another catholic here of- what I suspect is- a different sect to yours, we've got catholics disavowing the current pope based on some things he said.... you guys aren't a monolithic bloc any more than all atheists are.
But the Church is monolithic in the sense that it is possible to read what the official teaching of the Church is...regardless of how any one individual interprets it. So, if you want to know what the Catholic Church actually teaches, that information is available.
