Professor's Return to Catholicism Celebrated
Francis Beckwith, the former Evangelical Theological Society president who returned to Catholicism last year, has been named as the "Number 1 Person of the Year" by "Inside the Vatican," a conservative Catholic magazine. An online essay recounts the spiritual path taken by Beckwith, saying of his transition from the society presidency: "Resigning that post to become a Catholic is, well, something akin to the President of Notre Dame stepping down to become a Baptist minister."
Beckwith, an associate professor of philosophy and church-state studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, and his wife, Frankie, are now parishioners at a local Catholic church. "I would never have predicted that it would take a professorship at the world’s largest Baptist university in the heart of Texas to bring us in contact with a godly priest who would help guide us into the Catholic Church," Beckwith said.
posted by AMB at
8:49 AM
1 Comments:
While I was a student at Baylor, a half century or so ago, I realized that although Baptists and Catholics were competitors, they were very similiar in a number of ways.
Both tend to be: highly moralistic; highly authoritarian; appeal to an infallible standard (Bible or Church); largely identified with a certain culture; highly rationalistic; impervious to historical fact; overly impressed by alleged miracles; and keenly distrustful of each other.
So where is the surprise in Beckwith's switch hitting?
1/10/2008 09:20:00 PM
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