Extra ecclesiam (sketch)

Through Protestant Reformation we reach Islam.

1) Many discrepant translations cause sacred texts to be dispersed: lack of canon; philological anarchy and tirany of scholars.

2) Many sects and interpretations: lack of a detailed rule of faith; indistinction between heretics and infidels.

3) Exegetical relativism: lack of united sense and soundness in moral doctrine; fideism.

4) Secularization: lack of hierarchy; confusion with civil and political power.

Christ is not a message or a mere messenger: He is the living Law of the Old Covenant, and the Head of the New one’s Mystic Body. If He wasn’t God, He wouldn’t be able to hold such high attributes without falling into idolatry.

However, if there are as many interpretations of Christianism as Christians, we don’t have a single head. If we don’t have a single head, Christ is not our head and, therefore, we cannot recognize His divine condition.

Thus, any redemption operated in the name of Christ and avoiding the spiritual communion with the Church is a rhetorical one (Lk. 11:21-23). Jesus’ sacrifice is diluted into a pious example of virtue, His mediation is suppressed indeed and the abyss of sin remains.