Could Newman Have Been Right About the Catholic Sense of the Articles?
Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 11:03PM
Embryo Parson in 39 Articles, English Reformation, Evangelical and Catholic

This blogger thinks so.  It's a matter I intend to look into more seriously when time permits. 

On a related subject, when I peruse the web for what's going on in the "evangelical" world these days, I'm afraid the term "evangelical" means anything and nothing. I'd be tempted to abandon the term altogether were it not for the fact that it has a long and honored history in the Church, as it it is a cognate of the world "Gospel." Somehow we Evangelical Catholics need to reclaim it. I try to do it by telling people I'm an "old school" Evangelical and that by that I mean a Christian who believes the apostolic doctrines of grace as set forth in the great Protestant confessions, which doctrines not only cohere with but flow inexorably from the orthodox triadology and christology of the Catholic Church. For us old school Evangelicals, Creed and Confession go together. We can only be truly Evangelical if we are rooted in the Great Tradition.  That means being Catholic. 

I Believe in the Holy Catholic Church.

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