Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: emory!dragon!cms@gatech.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Fundamentalism and Catholicism Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 90 06:41:45 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Computer Projects Unlimited Lines: 75 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , crf@tomato.princeton.edu (Charles Ferenbaugh) writes: > In summary, Cindy has given some good advice to the serious Catholic on how > to deal with the simplistic, misguided Fundamentalist. Be aware, however, > that there are serious and non-serious Catholics, serious and non-serious > fundamentalists, and so on. This posting is only part of the picture; > don't mistake it for the whole. Charles, thank you for your kind posting. For the most part, I agree with what you said. The kind of fundamentalists I was talking about are indeed the kind who dare distribute anti-Catholic propoganda in front of a Roman Catholic church as people are departing after Mass. When I received some hate-material from a fundamentalist as a child, Monsignor said to the young, clean-shaven, well-dressed young man (white shirt and tie), paraphrased to the best of my memory, "We're not going to prevent you from distributing your materials, but please restrict the distribution of your propoganda to the adults." Very formal, with a wan smile. > Charles Ferenbaugh > > P.S. Cindy, you also wrote: > >> ... I can suggest that you read "The Catholic >>Religion," an explanation of Anglican Catholic beliefs, but few Protestants >>will probably read it... > > Nobody is going to read this. We have no idea where to find it. :-) > > Seriously, though, if you can provide more information on this book, or > others like it, I'm interested. "The Catholic Religion: A manual for instruction for members of the Anglican Communion," by Vernon Staley; revised by Brian Goodchild; foreward by the Bishop of Leicester. First published in 1893. Morehouse Barlow Co., Inc. Copyright 1961, 1983 by A.R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd. The forward is so well put I'll reproduce it: "This book remained in print for seventy years, but has not been available in new copies for the past twenty. Its long life ended when the Church of England began to be affected by the change of Christian climate that is most readily identified by the Second Vatican Council, but was in fact a much greater movement of response to contemporary history. "Now Staley's work can be seen in a different perspective of time and thought. Like all theologicaly compendiums (including St Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae) it proves too small for its purpose. The Christian Faith can no more be defined in a book than God can be contained in his Church; yet the new perspective makes this book's usefulness clearer. "Here we have a sober statement of Anglican orthodoxy. Though some of its details, some of its proccupations, are dated, it makes one point clear: the opposite of catholic is not protestant, but heretic. When Staley goes on to quote that 'every heresy is the intellectual vengeance of some supressed truth' we are assured that he was too wise to believe he could define the whole faith in a single volume. So we expect wisdom in him, and find much of it. March 1983 + Richard Leicester -- Sincerely, Cindy Smith emory!dragon!cms [The original article did worry me a bit, because it might tend to cause Catholics to reject the more general Protestant position by confusing it with fundamentalism. There are a number of us who claim the Bible as our basic authority, but in a more flexible way than the fundamentalists. It might not be obvious to Catholic readers that many of the problems with the authority of Scripture pointed out in the article are not with the idea itself but with a particularly rigid concept of that authority. --clh]