The Peculiar Office (4)

In the last third of our previous article we were engaged in enumerating the various tenets comprising Rome's view of the church and of the special office. We-listed the following propositions: - The pope takes Christ's place in the church militant to rule in Christ's stead. - Apart from the ordaining bishop there is no capacitation for office. - The particular office is affixed to the person of the officebearer and superimposed in him upon the church. - The pope should be recognized as the...