Covenant Reformed News – May 2021 • Volume XVIII, Issue 13
This article from Covenant Reformed News explores the doctrine of the church's catholicity, arguing that unlike other world religions, Christianity has no earthly headquarters but rather looks to heaven where Christ reigns as head of the church. The piece defends the Reformed understanding of the church's universal character against Roman Catholic, Jewish, and other religious claims to earthly centers of authority, demonstrating how the New Testament church's expansion across geographical regions reflects its heavenly orientation.
Geographical, Anthropological and Historical Catholicity In the last issue of the News, we introduced the beautiful truth of the catholicity of the church and began to explore what we referred to as the church’s geographical catholicity. Unlike other religions, biblical Christianity does not, and will never, have an earthly centre or headquarters, such as Rome (Roman Catholicism), Jerusalem (Judaism, premillennialism and dispensationalism), Mecca/Medina (Islam) or Salt Lake City (Mormonism)....