Rethinking a key biblical text and Catholic church governance.(Essay)
From: Biblical Theology Bulletin
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Date: 3/22/2008
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Author: Crosby, Michael H.
Abstract
For years Matthew 16:i 7-19 has been used in the Roman Church to legitimize a certain approach to its institutional form of governance that virtually excludes all the baptized but the hierarchy. Using the historical-critical method accepted by the Pontifical Biblical Commission (PBC), this article shows that this "Petrine" text is absent in its parallels in Mark and Luke. Furthermore, in official church teaching, which stresses Peter's "binding and loosing" as a key ...
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