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McCain's rationale for sharing [GJ - plagiarizing] all the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox material is the Vincentian Canon, but it's a tautology (see link below). McCain says that he's supposedly copying Luther, the Christian East and High Anglicanism in using the Vincentian canon. McCain also seems to be copying John Henry Newman, to which McCain refers, in that he wants to "return the" Lutheran "Church to many Catholic beliefs and forms of worship traditional in the medieval times."
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McCain writes: There is, then, such a thing as rightful Lutheran appeal to the Vincentian Canon, the determination of orthodoxy in virtue of what has been taught everywhere, always, and by everybody—quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est. This un-Roman Catholic way of doing theology (check out John Henry Newman’s Development of Doctrine!) might not in fact be the sole preserve of the Christian East and High Anglicanism:
http://cyberbrethren.com/2010/09/25/why-did-martin-luther-c-f-w-walther-and-most-every-other-orthodox-lutheran-theologian-believe-the-blessed-virgin-mary-remained-always-a-virgin/
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One prominent Orthodox theologian from the 20th century (indeed, some say the greatest Orthodox theologian of the last century) who thinks the Vincentian Canon is not up to the task:
http://acroamaticus.blogspot.com/2011/03/vincentian-canon.html
Strictly speaking, the Vincentian Canon is something of a tautology. The word omnes (all) is to be understood as referring to those that are orthodox. In that case the criterion loses its significance.
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John Henry Newman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman
This influential grouping of Anglicans wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs and forms of worship traditional in the medieval times to restore ritual expression.
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GJ - The origin of LCMS papalism can be found in the professors of both seminaries.
When denominations get old, they lose their faculties.
David Scaer is one of the papalists at Ft. Wayne. McCain brags about working under him when he stayed in school for post-graduate MDiv work. (Who does that?) Scaer is one of the top theologians in Indiana.
The Roman Catholic Church has done a masterful job of propagandizing the Protestants, making them believe that Holy Mother Church cannot be a mere regional sect (as each SynCon part is) but a world-wide cult. It must be very old (not just a century or two old) and have thousands of enormous theological books backing its claims, as Rome does.
The SynCons wrote their little square books for one generation and stopped. Now they write essays, copy and paste blogs, and look for ways to flee the shrinking reservation.
Lutherandom today has no argument against the Fuller Seminary dolts or the Roman Catholic seducers, because their overpaid and underworked leaders have abandoned the efficacy of the Word in the Means of Grace.
Without Isaiah 55, without Luther, without the Instruments of God's grace, nominal Lutherans can only repeat what other sects and cults have claimed.
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