The argument to reinstate fish days thus could appeal to nostalgia among the audience by conveying the idea that, despite fish days' present associations with
papism, a new prayer book need not constitute the total abandonment of old ways.
(96) Foxe turns Tertullian's anti-pagan polemical weaponry against Catholicism by distinguishing between the 'wholesome sacrament' of Protestantism and the idolatrous 'mystery' of
papism. Foxe's learned series of puns on mystery makes use of Greek, Latin, and English etymology: he plays with the Greek root meaning to close one's eyes, ingeniously translated with the English phrase 'blind mist'.
Furthermore, Tatishchev warned, the failure to study non-Orthodox texts would actually leave Russia exposed to inroads from
papism and from heresy.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and favourite of evangelicals despite his
papism, has hammered the former Massachusetts governor as being too moderate to satisfy conservative Republicans who distrust him on social issues such as abortion and gay rights which he has condoned in the past.
The Know-Nothings of the 1850s worried about the first great mass of German and Irish immigration, and of course the protestant nation worrying about
papism. There were the Japanese interments of WWII.
While Emperor Constantine was in an immediate and material sense an outstanding benefactor of the church, he was also the initiator of the oppressive Caesaro
papism for which the church was often to suffer during the ensuing centuries.
Traditio," she writes, "Luther knows the difference between
papism and his invisible church for holy men, a club / Augustine most likely could not join: the true church." (51) But while Grace acknowledges Luther's contributions to Reformation, she invites him to see what it is like in the city.
Besides being suspected of
papism, he was arrested as a counterfeiter, implicated in murder, and finally called before the Privy Council for atheism.
Catholics could not accommodate modernity, either, because
papism was inherently, transparently despotic.