<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>I count myself privileged to respond to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls recent book on Roman Catholicism. I live in Fort Worth, TX, and I am a member of Wedgwood Baptist Church, which is one of more than 40,000 churches that together comprise the Southern Baptist Convention. I mention this so readers will know that my comments come from a conservative Evangelical Protestant perspective, and my thinking stems from a tradition that is decidedly not Roman Catholic. Having said this, I’m much more sympathetic to Roman Catholicism than a great many Evangelicals, including Collins and Walls. I offer my criticisms of Rome, but I ask that readers not interpret me as someone who denies that the Roman Catholic Church counts as a Christian institution. In an effort to show good faith on this front, allow me to offer some defenses of Roman Catholicism against what I take to be over the top criticisms from some Protestant Evangelicals.</p></abstract>

I count myself privileged to respond to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls recent book on Roman Catholicism. I live in Fort Worth, TX, and I am a member of Wedgwood Baptist Church, which is one of more than 40,000 churches that together comprise the Southern Baptist Convention. I mention this so readers will know that my comments come from a conservative Evangelical Protestant perspective, and my thinking stems from a tradition that is decidedly not Roman Catholic. Having said this, I’m much more sympathetic to Roman Catholicism than a great many Evangelicals, including Collins and Walls. I offer my criticisms of Rome, but I ask that readers not interpret me as someone who denies that the Roman Catholic Church counts as a Christian institution. In an effort to show good faith on this front, allow me to offer some defenses of Roman Catholicism against what I take to be over the top criticisms from some Protestant Evangelicals.

An Evangelical Protestant’s Reflections on Roman Catholic Mariology

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I count myself privileged to respond to Kenneth Collins and Jerry Walls recent book on Roman Catholicism. I live in Fort Worth, TX, and I am a member of...

An Evangelical Protestant’s Reflections on Roman Catholic Mariology

Published Online: Aug 19, 2020

Page range: 21 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2020-0026

Keywords
Mariology, bodily assumption, theotokos, second-eve, ever-virgin, co-redemptrix

© 2020 Benjamin H. Arbour, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

An Evangelical Protestant’s Reflections on Roman Catholic Mariology

Published Online: Aug 19, 2020

Page range: 21 - 38

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2020-0026

KeywordsMariology, bodily assumption, theotokos, second-eve, ever-virgin, co-redemptrix

© 2020 Benjamin H. Arbour, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Mariology, bodily assumption, theotokos, second-eve, ever-virgin, co-redemptrix