Today’s New York Times has an obituary of Henry Chadwick, an Anglican priest and expert on church history who believed strongly in ecumenism.
Church history and ecumenism may interest few Americans, who have not recently suffered the sort of conflicts familiar to Northern Ireland.
From a statement of “the five points of Calvinism”–
Irresistible Grace
“‘Irresistible grace’ refers to the grace of regeneration by which God effectually calls His elect inwardly, converting them to Himself, and quickening them from spiritual death to spiritual life. Regeneration is the sovereign and immediate work of the Holy Spirit….”
How does one stand
To behold the sublime,
To confront the mockers,
The mickey mockers
And plated pairs?
— Wallace Stevens, 1936
On the left, a Catholic answer.
On the right, a Protestant answer.
For further details, see 10/16/05.
The above two
Philadelphia stories
have met in a different
vision of Grace:
Click image for a (much) larger version.
Let us hope that the late Henry Chadwick now has a place among such angels.
Related material:
Yesterday’s entries and
what T. S. Eliot might call
their “objective correlatives“
in the Pennsylvania Lottery
and in this journal:
