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Politics and the Mystical Body

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2024

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Blackfriars , Volume 24 , Issue 285 , December 1943 , pp. 441 - 446
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Copyright © 1943 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 These quotations are taken from a pamphlet, The True Church, by the late J. C. Ryle, D.D., Lord Bishop of Liverpool.

2 The Dacre Press; 30s. This study is difficult reading, at least for the Catholic, for no use is apparently made of the considerable Catholic works on the subject, so that the familiar features do not appear in their expected places, and the general theme wanders through many intricacies. But the New Testament as a whole and the writings of the earliest Christians are brought into relation to the Mystical Body with the result that numerous fresh ideas are there to deepen and vitalise the student's conception of the doctrine.

3 Cf. for example Darwell Store, Churchman and Counsellor, by Dr. F. I., Cross, pp. 40–50. This is another book for which we are indebted to the Dacre Press (price 30s.). Many Catholics have expressed themselves puzzled by the halfway position of Anglo‐Catholicism. Here are the Life and letters of an Anglican theologian of profound intellectual honesty and dynamic piety whose knowledge of Christian doctrine embraced all the main points of divergence between Rome and Canterbury. He remained convinced of the truth of his position to the end of his long and devout life. Any Catholic then who desires a sympathetic understanding of the Anglican position should study Dr. Cross's excellent summary of Darwell Stone's belief as well as the letters and papers he has gathered into this book.

4 Hence the Catholic bishops of America have felt bound to issue a note of warning regarding the declarations of the Moscow Conference which showed signs of compromising a ‘peace with justice to all.’ Yet they were carefulto point out that they clearly desired ‘not to enter the domain of statesmanship.’