Trigger warning:
this blog contains personal reflections and NOT endorsements, recommendations, advertisements, advice, criticism, admonitions, or censures. It is part of a personal activity of "thinking-through." All representations are merely provisional and are mine and mine alone. Its subject is 'Anglican patrimony'.
(N. B. Many of the posts are quotations or re-posts, as clearly indicated by the hyperlink.)
Patrimony
We deny to claim "any Superiority to ourself to defyne, decyde, or determyn any Article or Poynt of the Christian Fayth and Relligion, or to chang any Ancient Ceremony of the Church from the Forme before received and observed by the Catholick and Apostolick Church."
Shouldn't most of the times you use the word Catholic here be with a small c? I've been through three confirmation classes in my life, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and RC, and each said the same -- RC is the only usage where capital C is correct. The Thirty-nine Articles appear in the BCP, and up to 1979 they were binding. Those deny the real presence in the eucharist and deny the authority of the Pope, both definite elements of RC belief. The BCP is not Catholic with a capital C. I still remember wording from it fondly after RC mass, but unless I can find an Ordinariate mass nearby with Catholic usage, I just remember it fondly.
I think it's important to keep these things clear. I had an e-mail exchange with a silly ex RC religious, now "continuer" who insists he teaches full Catholic teaching from the BCP. If he could keep this stuff clear, he wouldn't be so silly.
This is a "re-post": as in all such re-postings, I preserve the thought and expression of the original author (sometimes noting misspellings, sometimes correcting them, almost always removing notes). The (embedded) hyper-link takes one to the original and there one may choose to dispute with the author. I don't always agree 100% with what I re-post: it is just a place where I keep my notes, so to speak.
Shouldn't most of the times you use the word Catholic here be with a small c? I've been through three confirmation classes in my life, Presbyterian, Episcopal, and RC, and each said the same -- RC is the only usage where capital C is correct. The Thirty-nine Articles appear in the BCP, and up to 1979 they were binding. Those deny the real presence in the eucharist and deny the authority of the Pope, both definite elements of RC belief. The BCP is not Catholic with a capital C. I still remember wording from it fondly after RC mass, but unless I can find an Ordinariate mass nearby with Catholic usage, I just remember it fondly.
ReplyDeleteI think it's important to keep these things clear. I had an e-mail exchange with a silly ex RC religious, now "continuer" who insists he teaches full Catholic teaching from the BCP. If he could keep this stuff clear, he wouldn't be so silly.
This is a "re-post": as in all such re-postings, I preserve the thought and expression of the original author (sometimes noting misspellings, sometimes correcting them, almost always removing notes). The (embedded) hyper-link takes one to the original and there one may choose to dispute with the author. I don't always agree 100% with what I re-post: it is just a place where I keep my notes, so to speak.
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