Baylor professor rebukes campus newspaper for mocking Church on indulgences
March 04, 2009
A Baylor University philosophy professor has scolded the editors of the school's newspaper, The Lariat, for an editorial ridiculing Catholic teaching on indulgences. The Lariat editorial-- based on the inaccurate impression that the Church had recently revived a teaching that had previously been defunct, show poor timing, poor taste, questionable source, bad history, and bad theological reasoning, argued Francis Beckwith. Beckwith, a former president of the Evangelical Theological Society, announced last year that he was returning to his boyhood Catholic faith.
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Further information:
- Editorial replete with errors (Letter to the Editor)
- Editorial: Indulgences are outdated practice Lariat
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