tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post5547327978729298257..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: Lancelot AndrewesFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-60084943281388286142010-04-03T14:43:58.657-04:002010-04-03T14:43:58.657-04:00I am extremely grateful that you have posted these...I am extremely grateful that you have posted these two sermons of Lancelot Andrewes. In my own mind one of the major problems which occasions some of the rawer and ruder exchanges on this blog is the ignorance of the great Anglican divines, both post and pre-Reformation. Indeed there seems to be a whole class of cleric who, while willing to be called Anglican and accept prayer book ordination, seems to want very little if anything to do which actually being Anglican in theology, liturgy or spirituality. The number of times that I have discovered that certain priests own none of the classics of Anglican literature, but whose libraries abound in works of others but especially modern Romanists, I know precisely why we have gone astray. The French call it 'le traison de clercs' meaning not the clergy but the intellectuals who have turned against their own tradition. In Anglicanism it began with those who refused to accept Elizabeth's settlement of the Church and the prayer book and were willing to destroy not only the Church but the whole of England for the doctrine, discipline and worship of Jean Calvin. It took another turn at the beginning of the revival of what was to be obedience to the rubrics of the prayer book and resulted instead in the substitute of same for those of baroque Romanism. <br /><br />But I still have this hope that an acquaintance with such as Jewel, Hooker, Andrewes, Laud, Bull and all those others that Keble included in his Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology will lead to an appreciation of Anglicanism could be, if its clergy would only give it a chance.Canon Tallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05182884929479435751noreply@blogger.com