Not meant to be, Anna. But that’s the reality. Sadly, the Anglicans moved further away from the Church.Come on now, Jim. I can’t believe you managed to work that into this thread, especially in response to my saying let’s celebrate the fact that we are moving closer together. I think your comment is what is called a “sucker punch.”uch:
Anna
Thank you for making that important statement, Anna. The Church relies on the three sources of divine revelation: Sacred Tradition, Sacred Scripture, and the Magisterium (the teaching authority of the Church)…
Jim Dandy,
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My comment was triggered by your statement that we are growing closer together. I regret that you were offended.
1holycatholic and Jim Dandy,The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion explicitly rejects the deuterocanonical books.
You don’t think the Catholic Church’s adoption of a Protestant translation for the CCC is a step closer?
The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion explicitly rejects the deuterocanonical books.
I don’t see it as the Catholic Church moving in the direction of Protestantism, but of the RSV being a more accurate translation and therefore widely acceptable. (See the sentence I highlighted in red in your post.) The Church has always rejected poor, inaccurate translations (like Wyclif’s and the KJV, for example). Consider this:
I read the article. It didn’t say when the Anglo-Catholics adopted the Catholic canon, but that it should have from the beginning. Or did I miss it?
Correct, and many of us do accept the Catholic Canon.
It is a common misunderstanding that Wycliffe was excommunicated for his translation, rather than for his denial of the Real Presence.Jim Dandy,
If memory serves me correctly, the first English versions of the Bible were translated from the Vulgate, rather than from the Greek or Hebrew. Of course, the first English translations of the Bible were oral, and then written later.
I think it was John Wycliffe who first translated a complete Bible into English primarily using the Vulgate. Of course Wycliffe was declared a heretic by the Catholic Church.History is complicated.
The Douay–Rheims Bible is an English translation of the Latin Vulgate and is online, along with the Latin Vulgate, and the KJV, at this link: latinvulgate.com/.
The Douay-Rheims Bible is also online at this link: drbo.org/.
Hope this helps.
In Christ, there is no such think as an insurmountable impediment to unity, as demonstrated by the current reception of Anglicans into unity and communion with the successor of Peter. Unity does not happen enmesse, but within individuals, such as Anna Scott, studying the history of their faith, and praying their way through their objections.
Yes, I do. But there are as many Catholics working on it as Protestants. I don’t think it is “a Protestant translation”, but a product of biblical scholarship enganged by Catholics and Protestants alike.
I never said the CC is moving in the direction of Protestantism.
I know. England wasn’t pleased with Wycliffe, nor was Pope Martin V, who, more than 40 years after Wycliffe’s death, ordered Wycliffe’s bones to be dug up, burned, and scatter in the river. (And people say the Catholic Church hasn’t changed.
) Not that England’s kings were any more merciful to dissenters in conflict with their beliefs-Protestant or Catholic in nature.I am well aware of the Catholic stance on the “primacy of Peter,” which is a different belief from that of Protestants, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians.
Which canon/translation do the Anglican Broad (liberal) and Low (evangelical) branches use?