Saturday, October 29, 2011

Benedict in Erfurt: Is That An Objective Genitive, or a Subjective?

Seen here:

 “It was the error of the Reformation that for the most part we could only see what divided us.”

Why wasn't it, why isn't it, the error of the Papacy? As if division were the most mortal of sins. "For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you" (1 Cor.11:19).


Ask you, what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
When truth, or virtue, an affront endures,
Th' affront is mine, my friend,
and should be yours.

-- Alexander Pope


(I love quoting Pope to the Pope).