Ray, a former Evangelical Protestant and Bible teacher, goes through the Scriptures and the first five centuries of church history to demonstrate that the early Christians had a clear understanding of the primacy of Peter in the See of Rome. He tackles the tough issues in an attempt to expose how the opposition is misunderstanding the Scriptures and history. He uses many well-known and respected scholars and historians to support the Catholic position. This volume has one of the largest citations of Scriptural and Patristic quotations on the primacy of Peter and the Papal office of any book available—with over 500 footnotes with supporting evidence from Catholic, Orthodox, Evangelical, and non-Christian authorities.