Veritas et Sapientia – You Can’t Solve “Christianity’s Problems” Because There’s No Such Thing

Mandeville, LA – “To many who have no sympathy with Catholicism, who inherit the old Protestant animosity to the Church (although doctrinal Protestantism is now dead) and who think that any attack on the Church must somehow or other be a good thing, the struggle already appears as a coming or present attack on what they call “Christianity.”

You will find people saying on every side that the Bolshevist movement (for instance) is “definitely anti-Christian”-_”opposed to every form of Christianity”_and must be “resisted by all Christians irrespective of the particular Church to which each may belong,” and so on.
Speech and writing of this kind are futile because they mean nothing definite. There is no such thing as a religion called “Christianity”_there never has been such a religion.

There is and always has been the Church, and various heresies proceeding from a rejection of some of the Church’s doctrines by men who still desire to retain the rest of her teaching and morals. But there never has been and never can be or will be a general Christian religion professed by men who all accept some central important doctrines, while agreeing to differ about others. There has always been, from the beginning, and will always be, the Church, and sundry heresies either doomed to decay, or, like Mohammedanism, to grow into a separate religion. Of a common Christianity there has never been and never can be a definition, for it has never existed. There is no essential doctrine such that if we can agree upon it we can differ about the rest: as for instance, to accept immortality but deny the Trinity. A man will call himself a Christian though he denies the unity of the Christian Church; he will call himself a Christian though he denies the presence of Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament; he will cheerfully call himself a Christian though he denies the Incarnation.

No; the quarrel is between the Church and the anti-Church_the Church of God and anti-God_the Church of Christ and anti-Christ.” – Hillaire Belloc, The Great Heresies, The Modern Phase

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