The Church of England and Inter-Communion
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- Author
- Robinson, John A.T. (John Arthur Thomas), 1919-1983
- Publication Date
- [1962?]
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BX 9.5 I5 R62 1962
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publication Date
- [1962?]
- Physical Description
- 13 p. ; 21.4 x 14 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- Cover title.
- "[B]y the Bishop of Woolwich".
- "This is the second of a proposed series of Prism pamphlets on a variety of subjects. Unlike the first this is a reprint of an article which appeared in Prism in March 1962." -- inside front cover.
- "The Rt. Rev. John Arthur Robinson, Bishop of Woolwich, is a suffragan to the Bishop of Southwark.". -- inside front cover.
- "Prism Pamphlets. General Editor: Timothy Beaumont." -- inside front cover.
- Date taken from library accession stamp on front cover of "Aug 7 1962".
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "I had the bad luck to finish the original draft of this pamphlet the very day the Open Letter to the Archbishops from the Thirty-Two Theologians appeared [November 1961]" (p. 1). .... "I therefore find the recent editorial suggestion of 'The Church Times' of 'an invitation to all baptised and communicant Christians of good standing in their own Churches to come, when they so desire, to receive the Holy Communion in their parish Church' rather shocking. I am not often more rigorist than 'The Church Times'. But I believe this proposal reveals a much lower doctrine of the Church than that of the Open Letter. It also discloses in a particularly instructive way the Anglican tendency to assume that as long as there is an episcopally ordained celebrant no other theological issue matters very much" (p. 7). .... "In fact one must, I think, say that if, and at the point at which intercommunion is ever justified short of union, reciprocal intercommunion is also justified. If we are regarding ourselves and each other as self-sufficient coexistent denominations, content to continue living and working side by side, then intercommunion merely deepens our guilt. But if we are seeking to live by the same unity which we know we do not possess but which we believe Christ has the power to make of us, then our 'locus standi' is utterly different. Intercommunion is then the great sacrament of justification by faith, the pledge of our new being in Christ, and all that is required for it is the trust that grace does indeed meet us through each of our sacraments however defective" (p. 11-12).
- Series
- Prism pamphlet ; 2
- Added Entry
- Open Letter to the Archbishops from the Thirty-Two Theologians
- Subjects
- Intercommunion
- Intercommunion - Church of England
- Lord's Supper and Christian union
- Christian union - Church of England
- Ministry and Christian union
- Close and open communion
- Lord's Supper - Admission to - Church of England
- Church of England - Relations - Protestant churches
- Concelebration
- Call Number
- BX 9.5 I5 R62 1962
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)