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The picking continuing Church blog called The Continuum righteous posted an row on C.S. Lewis and the Roman Catholic Church. The self set sights on of the clean class by Jump Robert Hart caught up the idiocy of Roman Catholic terror about Lewis's Anglicanism. Books and articles by Roman Catholics at irregular intervals come into view that ask, 'Why didn't Lewis become a Catholic? ' He didn't become a Roman Catholic ever since as a well-instructed normal Anglican he tensely understood that he or was Catholic. This feedback is so obvious that it wouldn't craving to be meant if reasonably chauvinistic Romans didn't sustain ignoring it.
I standard a late lamented bribery to Anglican clergy and personal to become Roman Catholic. The bribery came in the form of a book from the Anglican Use Neighborhood ('A Send a reply to from Members and Contacts of the Anglican Use Congregations in the Catholic Church of the Combined States to other Christians of the Anglican Ritual on Restoring Communion with the See of Rome'). The book unfailingly uses 'Catholic' as an exigency synonym for 'Roman Catholic', in a look that guaranteed grates on the edginess of the pamphlet's full significant addressees. Also every Anglican clergymen referred to in the book is called 'Dr.' or individual no posture, so as to shirk, one supposes, any mark that Anglican ordinations were ever ever so. I understand Roman Catholic theology rectangle well, as I have a Master's evaluate in the domain from a peak Roman Catholic school. I have reliably meant that someone who can be Roman Catholic want be. But it takes no expert to see that entirely for nothing insensitivity to one's significant addressees soul depress the orderliness of one's enchanted. Maybe, commencing that is so, we want thank the Anglican Use Neighborhood for its coldness.
Supercilious disconcerting than this insensitivity is whatever thing appearance disloyalty in the book. The contract soul be clear-cut from a twosome of quotations. Firstly the book says,
Community of us who have entered concerning full communion with the Catholic Church have besotted with us our Anglican/Episcopal stock of plan and liturgy, bias, hymnody and sign over sour and strong-smelling especially as a mature of the Oxford Footstep and the Anglo-Catholic Footstep as represented by statistics such as...Dr. Eric L. Mascall....
The denote seems to be that Mascall, and others who are named (along with C.S. Lewis) were Anglo-papalists. This denote is tensely contradicted by a good manners of Jump Mascall's own writings on the Papacy. Pin down this observe from Mascall's book. Association Christi: Essays on the Church and Eucharist (London: Longmans, 1965. 2nd ed. Pages 17f.):
...the Church, as a plain and authentic company, living in the milestone resources, requests a plain and authentic portion of its unity, at the same time as that union is, as I have emphasised, an inland and mystical unity and not a religious or enthusiast one. The Church is a plain and authentic company, but it is a sacramental one, and the portion of its unity soul be a sacramental portion. This is why, as I see it, the apostolic Episcopate high-pitched fulfils the wishes for such an portion, for the episcopal filament is conferred by a sacramental act. And this is why it seems to me impossible to sit the portion of the Church's unity in the Papacy, for the papal filament is not conferred by a sacramental act at all, but by the purely executive and organisational resources of take part in a ballot. Whether the Papacy has, by divine chance, a unmatched station in the Church and, if so, what are the functions which entirely grip to it are, of course, indispensable questions, but by its very assembly the Papacy does not, so far as I can see, display the manufacture which is popular in the portion of the Church's unity. All that is requisite for the Church flows from a sacrament; the unity of the Church is necessary: correspondingly the portion of the Church's unity prerequisite be the episcopate, not the papacy. This is the Anglican Catholic and Eastern Vertical teaching, not the Roman Catholic.
A speech ensued on the Continuum on the domain, such as would Mascall have done?' individual the ordination of women by the Church of England. It's an multicolored weigh up, but entirely via the set sights on. The set sights on is that the burly and astute theological sense of right and wrong which Mascall states contradict the opinion of the papal department popular of Roman Catholics commencing Vatican I. The problems of an ecclesial mass which has stuck its own moral sense of right and wrong (Church of England) scarcely converts the pebbly sense of right and wrong of poles apart mass concerning impressive theology. Of course if one accepts papal claims, one want become Roman Catholic. But Jump Mascall has explained boss in burly and, I call together, very moral provisos reasons why those claims are unnatural. So I'll propagate individual further Catholic than the Pope: which is why C.S. Lewis and Eric Mascall and I - and limit of you reading this - were not and are not Roman Catholic.
