tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post6111003742040912647..comments2024-03-24T15:19:06.377-04:00Comments on The Continuum: The myth of consensusFr. Robert Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05892141425033196616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-48162758395690662422010-12-18T12:57:33.080-05:002010-12-18T12:57:33.080-05:00Want an idea of how secure 19th-century catholic A...Want an idea of how secure 19th-century catholic Anglicans were in their patrimony? Take the time to read M. F. Sadler. (Kessinger's has reprinted two of his works: "Church Doctrine; Bible Truth and "The One Offering; A Treatise on the Sacrificial Nature of the Eucharist.")<br /><br />These books offer compelling arguments for the authority of tradition, baptismal regeneration, the reality of Christ offering his body and blood in the unbloody sacrifice of the Eucharist, the Christian priesthood, the licitness and desirability of the chausuble, etc., and they glory in the Prayer Book, the oft-disparaged Aricles of Religion ("the most perfect form ever presented to man of the doctrine of the New Testament") and in CoE divines from the Reformers to the early Tractarians.<br /><br />Such red-blooded confidence in English Christianity's "Protestant Catholicism" needs to be revived in Anglican circles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18902745.post-29107881972327225762010-12-18T11:11:12.221-05:002010-12-18T11:11:12.221-05:00I still remember sadly my time in San Francisco wh...I still remember sadly my time in San Francisco where there were three Russian Orthodox cathedrals, a Greek Cathedral and, I believe, an Armenian one. When I was in the process of reading myself into Anglicanism it was via the apostolic and ante Nicean fathers. Since I was by baptism Orthodox (Russian in my case) I found my transition easy. In my age I find what Father Hart has written here an affirmation of what I discovered and gave my allegiance. My major problem with the Continuum is to be found with those who prefer their ceremonial and church ornaments to reflect the Rome of the Borgias rather than that of England and the pre-Renaissance West. <br /><br />My major hope in the moment is that the priests and laity of the Continuum are reading this blog and especially what Fathers Hart and Wells have written. After that, we need only do consistently, day after day, what the Book of Common Prayer provides and has ordered.Canon Tallishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05182884929479435751noreply@blogger.com