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New BlackfriarsVolume 44, Issue 515 p. 196-204 Ecumenical Studies HENRY ST JOHN O.P., HENRY ST JOHN O.P.Search for more papers by this author HENRY ST JOHN O.P., HENRY ST JOHN O.P.Search for more papers by this author First published: May 1963 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.1963.tb00907.x Star Books on Reunion, General Editor The Bishop of Bristol. Mowbray. 1962. 5s. 6d. each. Roman Catholics and Unity, Enda McDonagh; Anglicans and Unity, David M. Paton; Presbyterians and Unity, J. K. S. Reid, D.D.; Congregationalists and Unity, Erik Routley, D. phil.; Baptists and Unity, L. G. Champion, D. Th.; Methodists and Unity, Rupert E. Davis. The Hard Facts of Unit, John Lawrence; S.C.M., 1961. John Lawrence is an Anglican and Editor of Frontier. A Catholic ecumenist beginning his studies would do well to read this perceptive little book too. op. cit. p. 118. For a measured and dispassionate assessment of the place and vocation of the C.S.I. in the movement towards reunion, by a Catholic theologian, see the article by Pére Louis Bouyer in Istina, 1955, 2, p. 215. Statistics will be found in A History of the Ecumenical Movement, Rouse and Neill, S.P.C.K., 1954, Appendix to chapter 10, p. 496. For differing Anglican views on this question see The Apostolic Ministry. ed. K. E. Kirk, Hodder and Stoughton. The Recovery of Unity, E. L. Mascall, Longmans, 1958 (Anglo-Catholic), Old Priest and New Presbyter, Norman Sykes, C.U.P., 1956. Christian Unity - The Anglican Position, G. K. A. Bell, Hodder and Stoughton, 1948 (Central Anglican). See The Church of South India and the Church, by Donald Rea, Baxters Press, Oxford, 1956. A justification by an Anglican Papalist of acceptance of the measures taken in setting up the C.S.I. in view of the urgency of the need for unity. He pleads the necessity of economy and tolerance, and the Catholicizing tendency of the C.S.I. The Household of God, by Dr Leslie Newbigin, once a Presbyterian minister and subsequently one of the bishops of C.S.I. throws much light on this tendency. ‘Only in the Church, with its living experience of the Holy Spirit, can the Bible be understood in its wholeness. In this sense the Church Knows more than the bare written text of scripture’. Dr George Florovsky, the Orthodox theologian, quoted in The Old and New in the Church, S.C.M., 1961, p. 21. op. cit., p. 55. He goes on to plead that it should not be wrenched from its context, but should be examined in the context of the whole doctrine of the Church. Quoted in Chrysostom, Quarterly Bulletin of the Society of St John Chrysostom, Winter 1962–63, p. 2. See The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, by Louis Bouyer, Harvill Press, 1956, Ch. VI, The Sovereign Authority of Scripture. See The Study of Theology, by Charles Davis, Sheed and Ward, 1962. ch. IX, The Christian Mystery and the Trinity. For an excellent and comprehensive survey of this problem see Christian Unity, Lectures of the Maynooth Summer School 1961, ed. McNamara. Furrow Trust, 1962; Religious Freedom and the State, by Dr Enda McDonagh. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume44, Issue515May 1963Pages 196-204 RelatedInformation