Response To 2007 Vatican Document
In response to a 2007 document approved by Pope Benedict XVI and released by the Vatican July 10 that says, in part, “...other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and that only Roman Catholicism provides the true path to salvation,” Dr. Kieschnick responded that this declaration, with which Lutherans and other Christian church bodies obviously disagree, is nothing new. Kieschnick said “Similar statements and perspectives precipitated the 16th century Reformation nearly 500 years ago.
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