The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-04-02


be sent there for denying its introduction Tho sn
IuVlon IS SO simple and satisfactory that the onl1
wonder is that 1t not found out before MAJ
mat the difficulty quite ends here 1t so happens
'iiaI ule author OF the Athanasian Greed was not
content with putting a damnatorv clause inst at
me beginning. He puts another one-iust as nm.
eonsldcfateIE dogmatic and intoerant-right in the
middle: 1t IS worded as follows: He therefore
aJ VIII be saved must thus think of the Trinity
In other words the thinking thus is a sine l1io
non of salvation. That is lust as had az saving thot
nose who do not keep the faith shall perish eyer-
IaSl1gS- As It comes IN the very body of the
Creed one cannot explain it away or dismiss il as
an introduction. We confess that we should have
Iound ourselves helpless in the face of this diff
Guilty were IN not that Bishop Browne comes TO oi1r
rescue lie tells us that the former clause was an
!htfoducton This one is not an introduction IT
d transition lit is sort of connecting link
pSC"eeh TWO real parts or section of the Creed The
more we think over that solution the clearer II
seems to us For tie between two things inst holds
mem together. but is not to be compared or nlacad
on the same footing with one or The other. No
OoaA, 1oF instance would say that the yoke which
connects two Is bit like either of the animals
20 damnatory clauses that come at the beginpipg
of Greed are 'introductions" If thew come in
me middle, they are transitions" IF thev came
az 1he end we have no doubt Bishop Brownies re-
1 GeIu % ~ ingenuity would be equal to the OCCASION
ana teach US to treat them as Conclusions"
Then, as dannatory clauses in document n,,,st
come, If they come at all somewhere abo1,t +b bo
cunning Inc middle or the end il follows that they
Vah III every case be reduced TO the rank of sub
sloafy or non-credal matter and can be regarded as
mere literary adIuncts which certainly not bind
ing on the belief or conscience of Anglican ,rorsbi
ers j use the bishops own words sit Is NECESSARY
20 distinguish between the parts which are really
!e Oreed and the parts which are merely the SET
1hg OF the Creed" Who does not see that in this
distinction the bishop has achieved the solution of
INC whole problem and scaled the doom of the OBJ
noNous clauses
! he question naturally arises granting tbo+ I2;b
op browne has dismanted the damnatorv clauses
!hIo mere setting. and separated them from what
= realy part OF the Creed" what is he going TO do
III IN men Does he expunge them? Net at all:
tnat would be vandalism and mutiiation-tbe SORT
OF proceeding one would expect of ruthless Tenton
o. French extremist The Anglican genius for
cor c@onpronnse and love of easy gradient methods on
"oieS blShop Browne to present his theory in a
manner which can hardly-at least anon, ,nodorat
men-be open to objection He np+s +bo ts;+
uuclloh and the transition clauses-whicb han
Pel 70 De uamllatory clauses, in small print while
m e ran parts OF the Greed are put in large print
ne reauer can thus see al glance by the size of
po i'llia the uegree OF belief which he is obliged
- give 10 the various clauses Zone trembles +o
Innk I'M that would be the general appearance of the
I'loie printed on the same principeD The arranpa
eI is nothing It not convenient. and the sugges-
o seems 10 us lar too valuable not to be impressed
upon the publishers of future editions of Apo1;o,
prayer books Be that as it may. thanks 10 P;sbo,,
Browne, the chief and much-desired result in anT,
case remains as acquired to Anglican theology
namely that the damnatory clauses of the Athapa
l"ll Nreed have been reduced to the rank of mere
erat faciendumi : :: y epoU
Inc bishop whose accuracy in the matters Of
history mas so often been open to criticism makes
! somewhat strange comment da1nnatory clauses
u u general and upon the practice OF the Catholic
'hurch IN appendng the words "Iet him ha opo+bo
q who bor
Nhhllons For after the lovely manner of the
mere no-Popery lecturer DR.. Browne seems TO tb;nk
nat whatever his thesis may be- its treatment can
ardly be complete until the Roman church has been
ragged INTO the compass of his indictment
instance, the following passage: I
In considering the 'damnatorv' cIausos vorsos
and :. 2o and 20, and A. we must not forgot +bo+
own TO the end of the Middle Ages il was the prac-
ice to condemn to eternal destruction those who
epared from the Catholic faith. This is shown !
= = Z remarkable way by many of the resolutions =
the Council of Trent. when the Roman church =
as driven to some measure of reform hv the mi; ::
ersal condemnation of its iniquities These reso-
itloIs instead Of being positive are negative with
curse attached "Nhosoever denies so-and-so let +
I'M be anathema.' 1t is relief to some minds 70 =
now mat these parts of the setting of the Creed r
re IN the ordinary spirit Of bygone age tn which -
may refuse 10 accord our sympathy. The same h
ay oe SAID ct some parts of the psalms of DAVID -
mai, we think, Is a somewhat remarkable ad- i,
S'i'i' w tdA remember when II he tbe
'gue OF certain Anglican writers-a former bshon r.
Stepney among the nmber-to represent tho e.
heIlcan communion claiming for itself tho 10
atures OF Christian antiquity. as opposed 10 Ro
aiIlsl winch, OF course, result of medaera1 la
ID modern accretions. And now for what reason -
, know not. the accusation is reversed. We arc of
arged with being too old, and with using formulas I
neh Were-not from the beginning or end of the NO
lddle Ages but down to the end of The Afddie pr
ges- In other words. we are accused Of adbor;m !;
Christian antiquity in aspects which barl, banI o.
the Psalms of David" On the other hand i !; h;
lglicanism now that it takes It's stand unon 1er
'dermty, aud provides-by the bishop's own in
NOUS derlce--relief for minds from the shirt
bygone age. to which it refuses to accord IT.
npatiF. Really eXactness Is not a nrop7inop+ to
lture ot the bishops way of expressing himself for
speaks OF the practice of declaring tbe .ana. wa
ma SIT (Which he paraphrases as "condemnine, the
eternal destruction those who depart from the wa
thohc falth) as existing down to the end nf st.
Middle Ages But why, in the name of All that
historical down to the end of the Middle AresS Ep
Blshop Browne viii look at the canons of tbe mo
mean council, he Will find that the "anatbema sits '
5 issued in 1870 And if general council u,ero to
embed tomorrow, it would undoubtedv use tho his
e formula and continue the same practice
y tho cfy JSh