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One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

The Early Church Was The Catholic Church

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 Kenneth D. Whitehead
Discuss Catholic books. Soft Cover
0-89870-802-8
8"  (20.3 cm) x 5 1/4"  (13.3 cm)
Ignatius Press
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Very often in the history of Christianity, "reformers", by whatever name, have aspired to return to "the early Church". The Church of their own day, for whatever reason, fails to live up to what they think Christianity should be: in their view there has been a falling away from the beautiful ideals of the early Church.

Kenneth Whitehead shows in this book how the early Church has, in fact, not disappeared, but rather has survived and persisted, and is with us still. "Reformers" are not so much the ones needed by this Church as are those who aspire to be saints—to follow Christ seriously and always to fulfill God's holy will by employing the means of sanctification which Christ continues to provide in the Church.

Whitehead shows how the visible body which today bears the name "the Catholic Church" is the same Church which Christ established to carry on and perpetuate in the world his Words and his Works—and his own divine Life—and to bring salvation and sanctification to all mankind. Despite superficial differences in certain appearances, the worldwide Catholic Church today remains the same Church that was originally founded by Jesus Christ on Peter and the other apostles back in the first century in the ancient Near East. The early Church, in other words, was always!—nothing else but—the Catholic Church.

Unlike other works of apologetics, this book takes an historical approach, looking at the Church as she was first established by Jesus, and then showing that the Catholic Church of today posesses and preserves all the features of that same early Church. Whitehead uses many direct quotes from the actual sources in the New Testament and early literature.

"Tackling every neuralgic issue from doctrine to liturgy to ecclesiastical structure, Whitehead leads the reader to the inexorable conclusion that if one of the Twelve Apostles walked into the local Catholic church and the local independent "Bible church", he would recognize the former as his own and the latter as an aberration. Done with charity and theological precision, this work is destined to become a staple in the libraries of apologists."
- Fr. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Editor, The Catholic Answer

Kenneth Whitehead, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, is the co-author of Flawed Expectations: The Reception of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as well as the author of numerous books.

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