> From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But, they were not fundamentalists. The two great doctors of the church > (Agustine and Aquinis) did not emphasize a literal interpretation of > scripture. The authority of the Church was the keys of the kingdom being > passed on from Peter to his successors, not a literal interpretation of > scripture.
"The most disastrous consequences must follow upon our believing that anything false is found in the sacred books....If you [even] once admit into such a high sanctuary of authority one false statement, there will not be left a single sentence of those books, which, if appearing to anyone difficult in practice or hard to believe, may not by the same fatal rule be explained away as a statement, in which intentionally, the author declared what was not true." --St. Augustine in Epistula, p. 28 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
