![]() ![]() ![]() If the Anglican Establishment were overthrown, infidel literature would, so to speak, flood the market. While the Established Church survived, Newman believed, it served as a witness to revelation and to dogmatic and ritual religion. Newman here depicted the Church of England as ‘a bulwark against infidelity,’ in the shadow of which all the dissenting churches lived. Capes, Newman warned him against launching a crusade against the Establishment. In three letters written in late 1850 and early 1851 to the Catholic layman J.M. ![]() On different occasions his letters and books show a strong support for Anglicanism. He never fully rejected that Protestant sect, and even insisted on its “salutary effect” in England. Avery Dulles points out the attitude Newman had toward the Church of England (pp. Galitzin Book review of John Henry Newmanīy Avery Dulles, London/NY: Continuum, 2009, 176 pp. Newman: England Needs Anglicanism by Margaret Galitzin ![]()
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