Covenant Reformed News – June 2021 • Volume XVIII, Issue 14
This article from Covenant Reformed News examines the doctrine of the church's catholicity—its universal character across geography, peoples, and history—and defends the Reformed understanding against Roman Catholic claims that numerical superiority demonstrates doctrinal truth. Drawing on Scripture and the Belgic Confession, the author argues that the true church is always a faithful remnant, not determined by size, and refutes Rome's polemical appeal to numbers by showing that majority does not guarantee biblical correctness.
The Church’s Catholicity: Perspectives and Scripture Last time, we spoke of Christ’s church in terms of its geographical, anthropological and historical catholicity. This fits with the beautiful idea of the word “catholicity”: Christ’s church is “according to the whole.” God saves the elect world in our Lord Jesus and not merely people from special nations or particular races or some languages or certain centuries or specific economic classes. The Triune God redeems and gathers as living...