Report Of The Anglo Catholic Congress

Author : Anglo-Catholic Congress St
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ISBN 13 : 9781330844403
Total Pages : 234 pages
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Download or read book Report of the First Anglo-Catholic Congress, London, 1920 (Classic Reprint) written by Anglo-Catholic Congress St and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the First Anglo-Catholic Congress, London, 1920 It falls to my lot, since I have been Chairman of the Subjects Committee, to write a word of preface to the collection of papers read at the Anglo-Catholic Congress held in the Albert Hall on June 29 and 30 and July 1,1920. The main aims of the Congress - "to bring men and women to a true realisation of our Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour and King," to extend "the knowledge of Catholic Faith and Practice at home and abroad" as a means of promoting a right relation to God, the demonstration of the place of Catholicism within the English Church - are, it may be hoped, sufficiently clear in the papers themselves. The subjects were chosen on a definite plan so as to form a systematic series with an orderly sequence of thought. The outlook of the historic faith on the criticism and speculation of the day seemed so central and vital that it could not be given any other than the first place in the considerations of the Congress; and after this essential preliminary, the proclaiming of the Church's message in evangelising the world and in strengthening and expanding the kingdom of God naturally came next. The need of a positive foundation made it necessary to consider the claims of authority in regard to belief and discipline, the limits within which differences may be tolerated, and the ideal which we must keep in view. The problems raised by the divisions of Christendom led to the papers on the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy Orthodox Church of the East, other Christian bodies, and on the witness of the English Church, with the hope of promoting the progress towards a restored Christian unity. Different aspects of corporate religion were considered in the papers on the sacrifice of the altar, the reserved Sacrament, the faithful departed, and the saints and angels; and under the heading of personal religion, prayer and Communion, meditation and mysticism, retreats, and the religious life claimed attention. Thus for those who were able to take part in the whole Congress there was a gradual ascent from the intellectual thought at the beginning to high forms of devotion at the end. The last meeting of the Congress was of a somewhat different character: an attempt was made in it to deal with the pressing question of the Church's relation to the social and industrial problems of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.