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Catholic Orthodoxy and Anglo-Catholicism
by: J. Joseph Overbeck
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Condition: New
Binding: Paper Back
Author: J. Joseph Overbeck
Publisher: BiblioBazaar (August 2008)
ISBN: 0554636174
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Jean Chrysostome, d'Origene, de Tertullien et de bien d'autres qui affirment ou qui semblent (!) affir- mer que tout culte appartient exclusivement a Dieu;' ?I defy the learned gentleman to give me one, fancy, only one, passage of any Father of the Church against the Invocation of Saints, i.e. in proof of the unlawfulness of the Invocation of Saints. This leads me to an observation I have made in reading books written by Anglo-Catholics. You will meet in the same with a tolerable amount of true Catholic teaching founded on the Fathers of the Church; but as the standard of the infallible Church is wanting, the amount varies according to the subjective disposition of the individual; so that also in the Anglo-Catholic denomination there is no Unity of belief, no more than in the rest of Protestantism. By ' Unity of belief ' I do not mean Unity in School Opinions, but Unity in dogmas (all of which the Church indispensably requires to hold), e. g. in the dogma of the Invocation of Saints. The Catholics are bound necessitate fidei, i. e. under penalty of forfeiting their eternal salvation, to hold all the dogmas (dogmata explicita sive declarata) without any difference, as among the dogmas none are optional or adiaphorous. Now the English Church, e. g. neither teaches nor enforces the dogma of the Invocation of Saints; and no Anglo-Catholic asserts more than that the English Church cannot object to it: Consequently in the English Church (even in the Anglo-Catholic sub-division) there is at least one dogma wanting, but the want of one destroys the Catholicity of the Church as much as the wantof all. Therefore the Anglo-Catholics are, Most DeCidedly, no Catholics, but Protestants, although Protestants inclining hopefully towards Catholicism. It is astonishing how the zealous Intercommu...
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