Overview
Roman Catholicism sets forth the differences between evangelical Protestantism and the Roman Catholic Church, both in regard to doctrine and in regard to the practical effects of Catholicism and Protestantism in the lives of ordinary believers. Boettner urges the evangelical community to draw from the apostolic church and from Scripture to discern the proper mode of belief and practice. He shows that the beginnings of Protestantism lie not in the fourteenth century, but in the belief and practice of the Early Church.
Product Details
- Title: Roman Catholicism
- Author: Loraine Boettner
- Publisher: P&R
- Publication Date: 1962
- Pages: 466
About Loraine Boettner
Loraine Boettner was born in 1901 in Linden, Missouri. He studied agriculture at the University of Missouri, but graduated with a B.S. after transferring to Tarkio Presbyterian College. In 1925, Boettner began his studies at Princeton, where he was influenced by the writings of Charles Hodge. He graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary with a Th.B. in 1928 and a Th.M. in 1929. He later received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1933 and a Doctor of Literature degree in 1957. From 1935 to 1939, Boettner also worked at Christianity Today, and worked at the Library of Congress and for the Internal Revenue Service. He continued to write and publish theological works—his most popular The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination, based on his Th.M. thesis, and Roman Catholicism. He died on January 3, 1990.