For example, a scientist must operate with certain unquestionable givens in his paradigm. Jaki wrote this book because of the crucial place of papal infallibility in Roman Catholic thought and practice. Though at base inconsistent with his faith in church tradition, he seeks to present a Biblically-based proof for the primacy of Peter as the first and paradigmatic pope. Even then, the matter of apostolic succession must be clarified. He does not do this.
Apostolic succession is assumed rather than demonstrated.
And On This Rock will be surprised to see the commitment to traditional Roman Catholicism and papal infallibility described by Jaki. The American trend toward presenting and perceiving Roman Catholicism as an orthodox, Biblical-type of Christianity is not consistent with the Pope's view of things or the Canon Law of 1983. The present book alerts us that the old arguments of the sixteenth-century are still with us.