Ten structural problems with Protestant worship, starting with the one that generates most of the others: the claim that the Church cannot bind the conscience to anything Scripture does not explicitly command. From there we work through the absence of a true and proper sacrifice, prayers for the dead, the cult of the saints, Eucharistic adoration, and the question of by whose authority a rite of worship is established at all. The argument runs on Aquinas, Augustine, Epiphanius, Cyril of Jerusalem, and the post-Reformation manualists, and it takes the Protestant objections seriously rather than assuming them away.
Contents:
00:00 – Intro
00:33 – Lawless Worship
07:09 – No Sacrifice
14:01 – Prayers for the Dead
21:27 – The Cult of the Saints
29:59 – The Rite of the Church
34:15 – Without the Full Sacramental Life of the Church
38:39 – Without Sacramentals
44:37 – Vows
46:07 – The Religious State
49:40 – Conclusion
