SANCTITY AND SIN

_Holy, Holy, Holy!_--IS. VI. 3.

Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners_. I TIM. I. 15.

A very different pair of charges--and far more vital--than those more or

less economic accusations of worldliness and otherworldliness which we

have just considered, concern the standards of goodness preached by the

Church and her own alleged incapacity to live up to them. These may be

briefly summed up by saying that one-half the world considers the Church

too holy for human life, and the other half, not holy enough. We may

name these critics, respectively, the Pagan and the Puritan.

Paradoxes of Catholicism · 第 21 / 50 题