The Demotion of Penance: A Fateful Step Toward De-Christianization

Roger Scruton, in his personal history of the Church of England, makes the thought-provoking claim that when John Calvin removed the sacrament of Penance from his “reformed” list of sacraments, “he made the first and fatal step towards the de-Christianization of the world.”

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