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Posted by kew gardens teleport on Wed Dec 4 15:30:19 2013, in response to Re: Rush Limbaugh and his anti-Catholic views, posted by SMAZ on Wed Dec 4 14:55:47 2013. The Church was established by Jesus Christ in what is now Israel and the Palestinian Territories and he delegated the authority to lead it to Saint Peter.That is not an historical view. It is at odds with what Paul tells us about his own career in Galatians 1-2. The Gospels – which all are hagiographic, rather than historical accounts – record Jesus commissioning the twelve (and the seventy), with Matthew alone freely elaborating the Caesarea Philippi incident from his source Mark, to turn Peter's villainy into something less ignominious. This is consistent with the view that Matthew was connected with Antioch. Saint Clement, a contemporary of Peter, wrote about the latter's life and martyrdom. Not true. The work known as 1 Clement does not even represent itself as being by Clement: it is written from "the church of God which is in Rome" to "the church of God which is in Corinth". It indeed mentions Peter's martyrdom, but it does so very briefly and makes no mention of where it happened or in what circumstances. Indeed, the vagueness of the account is highly suggestive that it was not at Rome, and from where he ends up in the Acts of the Apostles, it was probably at Jerusalem (or maybe Antioch). Clement is widely regarded as setting the structures of the Roman Church as we know it today. But again, this is the work of authors centuries later trying to back-project their own agendas onto the first century. There probably wasn't even monoepiscopacy at Rome at that point. |
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