Word: mackays
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...salvation, Dr. Mackay says that Protestants believe that "man is delivered from sin and all its consequences through faith in, that is, through commitment to, Jesus Christ . . . He is accessible to the approach of the meanest human sinner...
...Protestantism is in grave danger, according to one of its outstanding leaders, Dr. John A. Mackay (rhymes with decry). Dr. Mackay is president of Princeton Theological Seminary, president of the Board of Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., chairman of the International Missionary Council and a member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches. In the current issue of Presbyterian Life, silver-thatched, 61-year-old Dr. Mackay pictures Protestantism as ringed by three dangerous enemies. The first is religious syncretism, which "denies that Jesus Christ is the truth" but "makes Him one single aspect...
...Political Catholicism," says Dr. Mackay, is "the most subtle challenge of these three." To meet it, he formulates what he calls "some fundamental principles of a Protestant strategy." Prime requisite of Dr. Mackay's strategy is that it should not be negative-"marked by no mere blistering denunciations." Instead, Protestants "must apprehend in the light of the Gospel the nature of the Roman error," and this means "an intelligent understanding of the Christian faith . . . what the Bible is, what salvation is and what the Christian Church...
Authority & Salvation. To Protestants, he says, the Bible is "the supreme authority upon all matters of Christian belief and behavior . . . the chief and permanent medium of the Christian's communion with God." But to Roman Catholics, says Dr. Mackay, Church tradition "is equal in authority to the Bible. Moreover, the Church itself, under the leadership of an infallible pope, is ultimately more authoritative than either the Bible or tradition...
Much to Do. "For the Protestant Christian," writes Mackay, "the Church is basically a fellowship of believers which has been created by the Holy Spirit. Its ministers . . . are servants of the Church, not its masters. In the Roman Catholic view, Jesus Christ did not found a fellowship, but rather an organization. The hierarchs of this organization belong to the Church in a sense that ordinary Christians do not. In the evangelical view, 'where Christ is, there is the Church.' In the Roman view, 'where the Church is, there is Christ...