[Milton-L] De Doctrina Christiana

[Daniel W. Doerksen]

"Catholic" means "universal" not "Roman Catholic" when recited in the creed 
("I believe in  . . .the Holy catholic Church") as of course it regularly 
was in the early seventeenth-century Church of England. I find it 
fascinating that Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, noted church historian of 
the Faculty of Theology at Oxford, is slated to give a talk at the 
forthcoming Geneva conference on "Calvin et son Influence" in which he will 
claim that Calvin sought to be the "firth Latin Doctor of the Church," with 
the purpose to "repristinate Catholicism or the Western Latin tradition" 
(personal communication).

Daniel W. Doerksen

At 08:39 AM 1/12/2009, you wrote:
>Begging pardon of Milton, one may speak of PL and Lear as "catholic."
>Much ado, indeed.
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>Tony
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