Alex Suarez
Puritan Board Freshman
Does Roman Catholic doctrine on the gifts and offices within the church uphold a type of cessationism? Or do they uphold complete continuity of the gifts and offices?
BACKGROUND: As I was reading Calvin's Institutes this evening on Ephesians 4.11 (against the Papists), it occurred to me to read a Roman Catholic commentator (i.e. Haydock) on the verse. What I noticed is that Haydock uses Eph. 4.11 to defend the idea of a perpetual & successive office of apostle - (i.e. the Roman See)- of which Peter is the head.
BACKGROUND: As I was reading Calvin's Institutes this evening on Ephesians 4.11 (against the Papists), it occurred to me to read a Roman Catholic commentator (i.e. Haydock) on the verse. What I noticed is that Haydock uses Eph. 4.11 to defend the idea of a perpetual & successive office of apostle - (i.e. the Roman See)- of which Peter is the head.