Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

A Conference of Theologians.
the Thirty-nine Articles and the Council of
t/
Trent might pass away and be merged in the
Eighth General Council of the once-more united
o
Christendom."* But supposing that those Articles
did offer an insuperable, bar to such Re-union,
why
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need we retain them at such a cost ? Are
they a Creed I are they anything more than a
Concordat, which every one takes to be on his
side?
"
Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles,"
argues Dean Milman, "is
altogether unneces
sary as a safeguard for the essential doctrines
of Christianity which are more safely and fully
guarded by other means; it never has been, is not,
and never w r
ill be a solid security for its professed
object the reconciling
or removing religious
differences, which it tends rather to create and
keep alive." Again as regards the Canons, the
Supremacy need not be an abiding
hindrance to
"
Re-union. "I writes Dr. believe," Pusey, that
as the first question between England and Rome
was that of jurisdiction before any urgent
question of faith had arisen, so it is that same
question which calls for settlement in the first
instance."- -"To a Patriarchal Power, limited
by
the Canons of the Church and exercised in
conformity with them,
objection the English church might have to
raise. This is an issue to wliicli it has never been
honestly brought. The Eastern Churches never
it remains to be seen what
* Cf. Pusey s Eirenicon, p. 268.
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