tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post5196568274683191349..comments2024-03-22T16:09:48.895-04:00Comments on Beggars All: Reformation And Apologetics: C.S. Lewis... Remained a ProtestantJames Swanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16136781934797867593noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19795707.post-68162700491434959442014-03-19T00:48:47.485-04:002014-03-19T00:48:47.485-04:00 “The real reason why I cannot be in communion ... “The real reason why I cannot be in communion with you [Catholics] is not my disagreement with this or that Roman doctrine, but that to accept your Church means, not to accept a given body of doctrine, but to accept in advance any doctrine your Church hereafter produces. It is like being asked to agree not only to what a man has said but also to what he is going to say.”<br /><br /><br />“Christian Reunion”, in Christian Reunion and Other Essays, edited by Walter Hooper, London: Collins, 1990, p. 17-18.<br /><br /> “The Roman Church where it differs from this universal tradition and specially from apostolic Christianity I reject. Thus their theology about the Blessed Virgin Mary I reject because it seems utterly foreign to the New Testament; where indeed the words “Blessed is the womb that bore thee” receive a rejoinder pointing in exactly the opposite direction. Their papalism seems equally foreign to the attitude of St. Paul toward St. Peter in the epistles. The doctrine of Transubstantiation insists on defining in a way which the New Testament seems to me not to countenance. In a word, the whole set-up of modern Romanism seems to me to be as much a provincial or local variation from the central, ancient tradition as any particular Protestant sect is. I must therefore reject their claim: though this, of course, does not mean rejecting particular things they say.” <br /><br /><br />June 16, 1945<br />Letter of C. S. Lewis to H. Lyman Stebbins, “The Boldness of a Stranger” <br /><br />from here: http://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2011/09/two-excellent-quotes-by-c-s-lewis-on.htmlBrucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05750404686325950389noreply@blogger.com