The church exists for the sake of the world – not for the sake of the purity of the church.I write as someone who, at times, has seriously considered the Roman option - though not for the reasons which many are now considering! (there, I bet that shocked some readers!)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
That Roman Offer
Nick Baines blogs powerfully on the subject:
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Have to say that Catholicism has never had much appeal for me. My Dad used to call himself Anglo Catholic and said he prayed to the Virgin Mary. I always thought it was a reaction to his intense dislike of evangelicals.
I'd be fascinated to hear what attracts you about Catholicism though.
Maybe that should have read 'at one time'?
I think it was the way that the congregation (and it was a congregation) appeared to be far more earthed than the Anglican church I was attending. As long as I concentrated on the local picture it really looked rather attractive - there was no doubt some reaction against particular aspects of evangelicals - but it was a long time ago so memory is a bit hazy.
One can look with horrow at some aspects of Catholicism (centralised power, attitudes to women) much as one can also recoil from some aspects of wider Anglicanism!
horrow == horror!
Horrow - I think that is a mixture of horror and sorrow. "More in horrow than in anger" :)
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