The book is a masterful work in theology, well sourced with tightly constructed and logical argumentation.
:roll-laugh1:
You call anything "masterful"
that happens to reinforce your own thinking.
[Wait...... isn't that what 'masterful' means???? :rolleyes: ]
Father Laisney starts by declaring that BoD is the unanimous teaching of the Church Fathers. He "proves" this by citing a number of Church Fathers talking about Baptism of Blood, Church Fathers who actually REJECT Baptism of Desire (while upholding that of Blood). St. Robert Bellarmine admits in his treatment of Baptism that the Church Fathers were divided on Baptism of Desire. Yet Laisney lies by claiming that they were "unanimous".
Laisney is constantly quoting things and inserting elipses in places where the text is not convenient for his agenda. [But legitimately follows Rahner's example by his insertion of the ellipses, at least! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]
And the book goes downhill from there.
It's crap.
Karl Rahner actually does a VERY HONEST job of tracing the history of this thinking. And obviously Karl "Anonymous Christian" Rahner is no Feeneyite. He just happens to honestly admit that there's no trace of this in the early Church.
Anybody wonders why Fr. Laisney is so eager to be "re-integrated"? Or Bp. Fellay, Rostand...? They have failed miserably to defend the faith against the Roman apostates and they still don't have a clue why.
When you realize the root of the problem, all the mystery evaporates!
Fr. Laisney and the rest of the
Menzingen-denizens are all birds of a feather. Should we wonder why they flock together?
They are totally on board with the Newchurch ecclesiology when it comes to the non-necessity of the sacraments, (which BTW is the only reasonably explanation for changing the form of episcopal consecration and priestly ordination in 1968, which is no longer any big deal to the Menzingen-denizens)
and BoD and the salvation of non-Catholics. They scoff and fume at the necessity of supernatural faith (and in case you didn't notice, it's no longer GOD'S Church but the Church of Bishop B'nai Fellay, and the Church of Pope Francis), but perhaps this is obscured by their implicit denial of ALL OF the supernatural in the first place. It's traceable to Americanism, which is nothing but Liberalism with an American touch. "Saint" John Paul II is the one who got that ball rolling, by daring to put into words such things as "the dignity of MAN" and various quotes from Vat.II and other sources, mixed in with his TENS OF THOUSANDS of other USELESS words in his enyclicals which serve NO PURPOSE but to advance this agenda of MAN taking over GOD'S Church.
Karl Rahner is actually much more credible because MOST of the time, he has good scholarly tendencies. One glaring exception was his inclusion of the Mostaccioli-Spaghettiani letter into Denzinger (because it did not belong there at all, but maybe he just likes Italian food! HAHAHAHA) -- you get the feeling that he really stuck his neck out doing that because it was a very risky move, but somehow, he got away with it.
Just like how
they all got away with Vatican II. Same principle in action.