{"id":4661,"date":"2018-12-26T09:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T13:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=4661"},"modified":"2018-12-26T09:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T13:45:03","slug":"true-catholicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4661","title":{"rendered":"True catholicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the testimony of Scripture is lacking, then not even the consensus of the whole world is sufficient to prove that something is catholic for the church of Christ. The Vincentian Canon&#8217;s criteria of &#8220;everywhere, always, and by everyone&#8221; are marks of true catholicity only if ecclesiastical observances enjoy scriptural attestation. Not even the universal assent of the masses signifies catholicity. Catholicity, rather, is the assent of the church to the Word of God.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lutheran Patristic Catholicity<br \/>\n<\/em>Quentin D. Stewart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the testimony of Scripture is lacking, then not even the consensus of the whole world is sufficient to prove that something is catholic for the church of Christ. The Vincentian Canon&#8217;s criteria of &#8220;everywhere, always, and by everyone&#8221; are marks of true catholicity only if ecclesiastical observances enjoy scriptural attestation. Not even the universal &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=4661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;True catholicity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4661\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}