Beckwith and his return to Rome

“Christianity Today seems particularly thrilled with Francis Beckwith’s very public return to the Roman Catholic Church. In this puff piece/interview with Beckwith, CT makes the man’s sellout to Rome’s false gospel seem as though it was just a little course correction.”  So goes the hard-hitting comment on the Beckwith saga from Ingrid Schlueter at Slice of Laodicea.

“Beckwith makes Rome’s teachings on justification look just A-OK with the Bible, claiming that the misunderstanding of the centuries is just the result of a clumsy articulation of the issue by Catholic laity.  I have a very non-academic word to describe Beckwith’s view: hogwash.”

To give a little insight into the Romanism Beckwith is now embracing, The Slice recommends the story of Richard Bennett’s conversion to Christ after his life as a priest in the Roman Catholic church, HERE.

Richard Bennett’s book Catholicism: East of Eden, Insights into Catholicism for the 21st Century (Berean Beacon Press, 2005) is reviewed by Iain Murray HERE.  “Bennett’s work destroys any idea that the Roman Church has so moderated its beliefs that the old controversies are obsolete today.”  The issue for Bennet, says Murray, “is quite as serious as the collision between apostolic Christianity and the Pharisees.”