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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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The unpalatable fact is that certain decisions in any province affect all. We may think they shouldn’t, but they simply do. If we ignore this, we ignore what is already a real danger, the piece-by-piece dissolution of the Communion and the emergence of new structures in which relation to the Church of England and the See of Canterbury are likely not to figure significantly.
\nRowan Williams, Presidential Address, 23 November 2010.

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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Now that developments have occurred in the Episcopal Church of North America and the Anglican Church of Canada (and, to a lesser extent, in the Anglican Church in Australia) which are unacceptable to a large number of Provinces elsewhere, what can be salvaged of the notion of communion for Anglicanism?171 Calls to strengthen the internal bonds of the communion are read by some Anglicans as a move towards imposition of an un-Anglican uniformity, and they have in reaction emphasised the diversity that, for them, essentially characterises Anglicanism. In a 2007 address outlining the polity of the Episcopalian Church, the Bishop of Lexington rejected the concept of an Anglican ‘communion’, preferring to speak of ‘a voluntary association of autonomous churches bound together by a shared heritage from the Church of England and enjoying cooperative relationships for the purpose of mission [and] nothing more’.172 Such an assertion leaves no clear role or protection for the concept of orthodoxy, and consequently undermines the case for apostolicity and catholicity. It is for this reason that at this time the writings of the Caroline Divines are particularly important, as they express a clear vision, scripturally and patristically based, and guaranteed by a clear sense of orthodoxy, of the catholicity and apostolicity of the Church. Such a teaching can provide an important reference point for the contemporary Anglican Communion in its difficulties.

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Currently reading: Language in Thought and Action by S. I. Hayakawa 📚

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Currently reading: The Well Wrought Urn by Cleanth Brooks 📚

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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It might indeed be the case that, rather than conserving orthodoxy, a personal apostolic line might perpetuate error in the Church. Andrewes thought the succession had been compromised, since some Popes had been schismatic, and others heretics. Laud shared the opinion of many Divines that succession was no proof of apostolicity since Rome had altered doctrine from that of the apostolic age. 69 There was more concern about succession in true apostolic faith, for which a faithful searching of scripture and the apostolic writings would suffice as well as any lineage for bishops.

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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ARCIC notes that Ministry and Ordination plainly states that only a validly ordained priest may preside at the Eucharist, and that this Eucharist is the sacramental memorial of the unique self-offering of Christ to his Father. In celebrating the Eucharist and distributing these holy gifts to the assembly, the priest stands in a special sacramental relationship to what Christ did at the Last Supper, ‘pointing to his redemptive sacrifice on the cross’. Thus, it concludes, ‘together with the assembly, but exercising his own specific ecclesial function, the one who presides is thus the minister of the sacramental self-offering of Christ’.

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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For the Anglican theologians, the supposed identification of gazing at the monstrance or the elevated host as a form of spiritual or ‘ocular’ communion was a perversion of the intention of Christ in establishing this sacrament (Pope Clement VIII had promulgated the Quarant’Ore devotion in 1592). It took considerable subtlety and scholarship to disentangle popular devotion from genuine Eucharistic theology. John Bramhall seems to have understood the problem when he spoke of the ‘gross mistaking and misstating of the question on both sides’ and saw the nub of the controversy as the inability to distinguish ‘what is the proper adequate Body which is contained under the species or accidents; whether a material Body, or a substantial Body, or a living Body or an organical Body, or a human Body’.

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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It has been argued that the caution of the Caroline Divines was less a reaction to authentic Roman theological positions, than to counter-Reformation excesses of Eucharistic devotion and over-realistic piety. To this extent, Caroline objections were raised against abuses that Rome itself condemned – or ought to have condemned.

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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For the Divines, the manner of the Eucharistic change belonged firmly in the area of adiaphora, and it was their frequent complaint that the Roman insistence upon defining the manner of the change had brought division to what had previously been a unified Christendom. John Bramhall pointed out that among the earliest Christians ‘there were no questions, no quarrels, no contentions among them’ because ‘they contented themselves to believe what Christ had said, – “this is My Body” – without presuming on their own heads to determine the manner how it is His Body’. John Cosin voiced the same complaint, lamenting the loss of peace and unity occasioned by the Roman insistence upon transubstantiation, and stating with relief that ‘we that are Protestant and Reformed according to the Ancient Catholic Church do not search into the manner of it with perplexing enquiries’. For the Divines, the change was, and must remain, mystical.

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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But counter-Reformation Roman theology, in its concern to combat Zwingilian symbolism by strong emphasis on the objective reality of the presence, seemed to the Carolines to have neglected the very purpose for which the Eucharist was instituted; the life-giving encounter between the faithful and Christ. Herbert Thorndike perhaps represents best the Carolines in this respect. He affirmed the Real Presence as objective, ‘by virtue of the consecration, not of his faith that receives’, 26 but also spoke of the celebration of the Eucharist as the renewal of the ‘Covenant of Grace’; the Covenant community is one which lives faithfully in the presence of the Lord, whose close relationship enables its members to transform the world.

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Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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In an age of great learning and celebrity converts, there were dangers for the amateur in digging too deeply: ‘A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery’, the historian Thomas Fuller warned in 1642

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Currently reading: The Caroline Divines and the Church of Rome by Mark Langham 📚

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it was in the hands of the Caroline Divines that this ‘Appeal to Antiquity’ became the principal method of doing apologetics, to combat the Roman claim that Protestants had rejected the traditions of hundreds of years and introduced unwarranted innovations. Moreover, the witness of the apostolic and patristic eras might claim for the Church of England its own priority in antiquity, exposing the novelties proposed by the Roman Catholics. It was an argument that needed to be wielded with some caution; the witness of antiquity to (for example) historic succession might appear to favour the arguments of Rome.

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Currently reading: On Eucharistical Adoration by John Keble 📚

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the question may well be asked–much more easily asked than answered–whether, in the present divided state of Christendom, all who believe in the holy Catholic Church must not in reality, however unconsciously, be going on under this very appeal: at least, as against other claimants? The Greek will say, “I go by the voice of the present Church diffusive;” the Latin, “I go by the infallible voice of the See of S. Peter;” the English, “I go by what has been held fundamental every where, always, and by all:” but who is to decide between them, which of these measures is right? Yet all, one may hope, would agree to defer to the decision of such a Council as has been specified, were it obtainable. It is our common position; and we in England have so much the more reason to acquiesce in it, as it does not force us to “unchurch” (as it is termed) either of the other great sections of Christendom, as they do mutually one another and us.

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Currently reading: On Eucharistical Adoration by John Keble 📚

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How shall we stand, morally and spiritually, as clergymen bound by certain Articles, when the legal interpreters of those Articles have declared them to be, by implication, contrary and repugnant to a tenet which we hold as a vital doctrine of the Gospel?

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Currently reading: On Eucharistical Adoration by John Keble 📚

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Renewed nature prompts the Christian, and Holy Scripture from beginning to end encourages him, to use special adoration to Almighty God at the receiving of any special gift;–adoration the more earnest and intense as the gift is greater, and the appropriation of it to the worshipper himself more entire and direct. So it is with all lesser, all partial gifts; how then should it not be so when we come to the very crown and fountain of all, that which comprehends all the rest in their highest possible excellency, and which is bestowed on each receiver by way of most unspeakable participation and union,–that gift which is God Himself, as well as having God for its Giver? “Christ in us,” not only Christ offered for us; a “divine nature” set before us, of which we are to be made “partakers.” Must we cease adoring when He comes not only as the Giver, but as the Gift; not only as the Priest, but as the Victim; not only as “the Master of the Feast,” but as “the Feast itself?” (Bp. Taylor, Holy Living: Works, iv. 310, Heber’s edition.) Nay, but rather this very circumstance is a reason beyond all reasons for more direct and intense devotion.

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Currently reading: Discernment by Henri J. M. Nouwen 📚

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Discernment allows us to “see through” the appearance of things to their deeper meaning and come to know the interworkings of God’s love and our unique place in the world. Discernment helps us come to know our true identity in creation, vocation in the world, and unique place in history as an expression of divine love. Perceiving, seeing through, understanding, and being aware of God’s presence are what is meant by discernment. Opening the heart to what is really and truly “there” is a fruit of contemplation and spiritual practice.

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Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚

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Currently reading: Preferring Christ by Norvene Vest 📚

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How can we authentically engage St. Benedict’s Rule in a manner that is true to its profound insights, and also true to our own spiritual journey? As we rounded the curve of the road, Norvene turned and said with intense enthusiasm: “The answer lies in the way we read the Rule. It shouldn’t be studied like a book of regulations, or a school textbook. It should be read as lectio divina!”

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Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚

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Currently reading: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚

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free library find: Habitation of Dragons by Keith Miller 📚

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got it for the cover font and title and it has interesting quotes throughout! Pascal, Scupoli, Beuchner, Merton, Rollo May. weirdly 1970s eclectic

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Currently reading: An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚

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In asserting the doctrine of the Atonement, we assert redemption, liberty for man-kind, union with God, union with each other. We denounce the denial of that doctrine, because we say that to deny it is to take away from man that which in all ages he has been sighing for,-communion with God, communion with his fellows. When we assert the doctrine of the Trinity, we do so, because we believe it to be the grand foundation of all society, the only ground of universal fellowship, the only idea of a God of love.
\nF.D. Maurice, Kingdom of Christ, Vol 1

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Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚

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Revelation usually begins by God’s revealing us to ourselves. Only then does God reveal the Divine self to us.

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Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚

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Too easily we have settled for knowing about God. Too easily our actual relationship with God is remarkably superficial. Is it any surprise, then, that we haven’t learned very much about our self as a result of this encounter?

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Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚

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there are many false ways of achieving uniqueness. These all result from attempts to create a self rather than receive the gift of my self-in-Christ. But the uniqueness that comes from being our true self is not a uniqueness of our own making. Identity is never simply a creation. It is always a discovery. True identity is always a gift of God.

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Currently reading: The Gift of Being Yourself by David G. Benner 📚

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We should never be tempted to think that growth in Christlikeness reduces our uniqueness. While some Christian visions of the spiritual life imply that as we become more like Christ we look more and more like each other, such a cultic expectation of loss of individuality has nothing in common with genuine Christian spirituality. Paradoxically, as we become more and more like Christ we become more uniquely our own true self.

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The doctrine of the Holy Trinity is the statement of “a mystery revealed when Christ ascended to his Father, and sent the comforter to dwell among men that they might become citizens of the Kingdom of Heaven” — F. D. Maurice

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An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚

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Currently reading: An Introduction to F.D.Maurice’s Theology by W. Merlin Davies 📚

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