Theology of Andrew: A True Anglican

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

A True Anglican - Richard Hooker Quote

After my last post, I found this quote which I really enjoy, it gives me peace about this whole thing. It is from Richard Hooker, pretty much a doctor of the Anglican Church, he was an extremely influential theologian, and was one of the only protestants in the reformation era who spoke well of Catholics. He wrote this about those who condemned Catholics for not believing in Sola Fide:

"God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a
courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say
ill, and to make the most of what we say aright."

Hopefully it is true, I found it interesting that the contemporary Pope at the time of Hooker, said that his works would endure till the end of the age and spoke highly of him - or rather as highly as one could expect a Catholic to speak of a Protestant/Anglican.

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Quotes For Thought

"If baptism is the beginning of my life, and the day of regeneration is the first of days, it is obvious that the words spoken when I received the grace of adoption are more honorable than any spoken since....Through this confession I was made a child of God, I, who was His enemy for so long because of my sins. May I pass from this life to the Lord with this confession on my lips." - St. Basil the Great, On the Holy Spirit, par. 26.

"To know Jesus and Jesus crucified is the sum total of my philosophy." - St. Bernard of Clairvaux

"Oh the extraordinary goodness of God toward man? The just of the Old Testament thank God in the weariness of long years; but that which they obtained, by means of a long and heroic service pleasing to God, Jesus gives to you in the brief time span of an hour. Indeed, if you believe that Jesus Christ is the lord, and that God had raised him from the dead, you will be saved and you will be introduced into heaven by the same one who introduced the good thief." - St. Cyril of Jerusalem

"He made us to believe in Christ, who made for us a Christ on whom we believe. He makes in men the beginning and the completion of the faith in Jesus who made the man Jesus the beginner and finisher of faith" - St. Augustine

"Nor must we trust in holiness of origin, in forefathers, or in
the gifts of God which we enjoy. We must look to the Word alone and judge thereby. Those alone who truly embrace the Word will be as immovable forever as Mount Zion. They may be few in number and thoroughly despised by the world, as were Noah and his children. But God, through these few, preserved to man the truth of that promised mastery when he had not even room to set his foot upon the earth." - Bl. Martin Luther "Commentary on Genesis"