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Jan 3, '10, 5:44 am
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Re: Do you think CS Lewis would have come over to Rome if he were still alive?
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He was closer to the East in tone and theology, and he wasn't really a Scholastic, but more into mystical theology. In fact he read several of the more mystical Fathers like Pseudodionysius. Lewis is very popular with some of the Orthodox I know. OTOH, he was a western Christian. Now Anglicanism is moving towards the evangelical tone - history is irrelevent, real unity is irrelevent (minimalist theology), and it's all about the personal Jesus stuff. He really was not an evangelical, even though many evangelicals embrace him, his views of religion weren't consistent with that.
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He said some positive things about Orthodox clergy, liturgy and services he had observed, in Greece.
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Jan 3, '10, 6:06 am
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Re: Do you think CS Lewis would have come over to Rome if he were still alive?
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He was closer to the East in tone and theology, and he wasn't really a Scholastic, but more into mystical theology. In fact he read several of the more mystical Fathers like Pseudodionysius. Lewis is very popular with some of the Orthodox I know. OTOH, he was a western Christian. Now Anglicanism is moving towards the evangelical tone - history is irrelevent, real unity is irrelevent (minimalist theology), and it's all about the personal Jesus stuff. He really was not an evangelical, even though many evangelicals embrace him, his views of religion weren't consistent with that.
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He said some positive things about Orthodox clergy, liturgy and services he had observed, in Greece.
GKC
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Hi!
This is news to me. Interesting!
The statement that he was a "mere Christian" is potent and suggests a reason he would never have become Catholic. It would have expressed a rejection of one form of Christianity in favor of another, when he was of the opinion there was a mere Christianity that he already had within the Anglican Communion.
-Tina 
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Jan 3, '10, 6:40 am
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Re: Do you think CS Lewis would have come over to Rome if he were still alive?
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Hi!
This is news to me. Interesting!
The statement that he was a "mere Christian" is potent and suggests a reason he would never have become Catholic. It would have expressed a rejection of one form of Christianity in favor of another, when he was of the opinion there was a mere Christianity that he already had within the Anglican Communion.
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That is correct. None the less, he made some favorable observations about Orthodox clergy, and liturgy. Not to say he was in any way inclined to drift Eastward.
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Jan 3, '10, 9:00 am
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Re: Do you think CS Lewis would have come over to Rome if he were still alive?
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That is correct. None the less, he made some favorable observations about Orthodox clergy, and liturgy. Not to say he was in any way inclined to drift Eastward.
GKC
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GKC,
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge on my thread.
I found this in your absence.
http://www.ignatius.com/ViewProduct....D=1995&AFID=12
Happy New Year!
__________________
"No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church
can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples." Pope John Paul the Great
JP2 -- Pray for Us
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Jan 3, '10, 12:23 pm
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Re: Do you think CS Lewis would have come over to Rome if he were still alive?
You are very welcome, and Happy New Year to you..
Pearce's book on the subject is about the best of the three I know of; his, Fr. Randolph Willis' and Christopher Hollis'.
Still a few problems with it, but I often recommend it to folks interested in this subject.
GKC
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Jan 5, '10, 9:18 am
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Re: Do you think CS Lewis would have come over to Rome if he were still alive?
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Originally Posted by TinaG
Hi!
This is news to me. Interesting!
The statement that he was a "mere Christian" is potent and suggests a reason he would never have become Catholic. It would have expressed a rejection of one form of Christianity in favor of another, when he was of the opinion there was a mere Christianity that he already had within the Anglican Communion.
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THe same problem would be found with Orthodoxy I think.
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