Dwight Longanecker Analysis

In this article titled “How Do We Know It's The One True Church?” the author “Fr.Dwight Longanecker” gives many critical points of defending his argument. In this article the author gives background on how he was brought up in the church. The author gives his conversion story on how he was raised as a protestant and then converted to Catholicism. All in all the author has a good understanding on what he is arguing about. Throughout this article the author defends his argument through Ethos Pathos and Logos in many topics such as how the church is rooted in history of the church, Divine Scripture and the authors conversion story.

Throughout this article the author gives many reasons on how the catholic church is the one true church. One of

In the section titled It is rooted in history the author gives a main point in defending his argument. In this section the author states “ To decide difficult questions, a valid authority has to be historical. By this I mean not only does it has to have an understanding of history, but itself must be rooted in history. In addition, the authority has to show a real continuity with the historical experience of Christianity. The churches that have existed for four or five hundred years can demonstrate this to a degree, but only the Catholic (and Eastern Orthodox) Church has a living link with history that goes back to Roman times—and then, through Judaism, back to the beginning of human history.” This statement is not only important but crucial to the author's argument. The author is stating that in order to decide on in important decision a valid authority has to be historical. Such as if someone was arguing over the belief of the transubstantiation they could point to how the catholic church is the oldest and held to that belief over the course of two thousand years and the

On of the modes of persuasion that can be read in this article is pathos. This is due to the author's use of emotion that really draws the reader. Throughout the beginning of the article the author gives a story on what it was like going through life as a protestant and then becoming a pastor, but later on in his career coming to the full understanding of what the church is and what it stands for to later on convert and become a priest. In the beginning of the article the author tells his struggles on some the of new ideas coming about in the Anglican church when he was an Anglican priest. The author states “My pilgrimage of faith came to a crisis in the early 1990s as the Anglican Church struggled over the question of the ordination of women.” Clearly the author was not to happy about the question of women coming into the priesthood. This statement can be read as pathos.

In this article the author states many reasons on how the catholic church is the one true church. The author uses this through the modes of persuasion by using ethos, pathos and logos. Religion is something that is very hard to discos with people, through either someone being a protestant, Catholic, Muslim or Jew. Religion can be argued in many different ways with people taking many different sides. Religion is mainly based off of faith