Simple (?) Religious Question

[pepperlandgirl]

I probably should have asked this sooner. I need the information by tonight. But I think it should be a fairly easy question to answer, however, wiki and google have failed me!

Would an Anglican (a "high church" sort of Anglican) believe in Predestination? Specifically, an Anglican in the mid 19th century? Also...can somebody give me a run down of the big theological differences between a Catholic and said Anglican--I feel like there wouldn't be any *huge* differences, as the high church looks to me to be fairly Catholic still. I mean, there's the Pope thing. But I'm not smart enough to grasp the nuances on my own over here.

Comments

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Predestination is in Calvinism (and its offshoots), not the Anglican church.

The major diffs between Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Catholic Church:

1: superiority and infallibility of the pope
2: the doctrine of transubstantiation.

The latter is quite a substantial theological difference.

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's what I thought about Predestination, and why I am now stuck looking for information about it. We were reading about a poet who converted to Catholicism and a classmate mentioned it was because of the faith + good works thing as opposed to the doctrine of predestination. I argued the Anglicans were not the same as the Calvinists....and now here we are.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Gerard Manley Hopkins, by any chance?

[pepperlandgirl4.livejournal.com]

Got it in one. :)

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Hopkins was inspired by Cardinal Newman, who himself converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism.

I think that for Newman, it was about theological rigour, and especially things like authority of the church. IIRC Newman came to think that the Anglican church didn't have the proper theological underpinning to its authority that the Roman Catholic church did. I think there was a sense that Anglicanism went at it half-assed, in a way.

Your classmate is definitely barking up the wrong tree wrt predestination.