Dominikaneren Aidan Nichols har nylig utgitt en bok der han ber om full innsats fra katolikker for at England kan vende om til den katolske tro. Jeg ble tipset om dette fra en som leser denne bloggen, men jeg leste om boka allerede for noen f\u00e5 dager siden. Jeg har ogs\u00e5 sett diskusjoner om hvordan man best skal forst\u00e5 Nichols. Han \u00f8nsker ikke \u00e5 fokusere p\u00e5 en kamp mot andre kirkelige forsamlinger, men mer direkte p\u00e5 at mennesker m\u00e5 vende om til kristen (og katolsk) tro.<\/p>\n
Nichols har ogs\u00e5 skrevet lignende ting f\u00f8r – se her<\/a>. Og slik kan vi i dag lese videre i The Catholic Herald<\/a>:<\/p>\n Convert England to Catholicism, says papal ally<\/b><\/p>\n One of Britain\u2019s leading theologians has broken ranks with the ecumenical establishment by calling for Catholics to convert non-Catholics.<\/p>\n Fr Aidan Nichols, the English theologian most closely associated with the thinking of Benedict XVI, has appealed for England to be \u201cre-made\u201d as a Catholic country.<\/p>\n He set out his radical and comprehensive programme for Catholic renewal in a new book entitled The Realm: An Unfashionable Essay on the Conversion of England, published by Family Publications.<\/p>\n In his preface he says that Catholic Christianity should be put forward \u201cnot as an occupation for individuals in their solitude but as a form for the public life of society in its overall integrity\u201d.<\/p>\n He admits that the conversion of England is \u201can absolutely colossal agenda\u201d,<\/font><\/i> adding: \u201cIt can only be brought into being, so far as it depends on us to do so, by a coordinated strategy for recreating a full-blooded catholicity with the power to… transform a culture in all its principal dimensions.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is what \u2018the mission to convert\u2019 and \u2018the conversion of England\u2019 mean to me.\u201d The Second Vatican Council, he argued, did not replace mission with dialogue. Instead it drew attention to respectful dialogue and an understanding of other faiths as a necessary condition of missionary work.<\/p>\n Fr Nichols, a Dominican friar, argues that the disappearance of other Christian and non-Christian religions would not necessarily be \u201ca Bad Thing\u201d, since the Catholic faith contains all the elements of truth, goodness and beauty that are present in other forms of Christianity and faith traditions.<\/p>\n He argues that Catholicism was crucial in the formation of England and suggests that the Church is well suited to remaking a \u201cnot terribly impressive culture\u201d dominated by \u201csupermarkets and sport\u201d.<\/p>\n English Catholicism is fit for the challenge, he explains, because it is a \u201cpot-pourri\u201d of recusant families, Anglican converts and Irish, Polish and Filipino immigrants. He says the example of the original Anglo-Saxon conversion of England showed that only a mixture of \u201cindigenous and exogenous elements\u201d can successfully transform a whole society.<\/p>\n Fr Aidan Nichols’s plan for renewal:<\/p>\n Firmer doctrine in our teaching and preaching Fr Nichols identifies a number of strategies he believes the Church ought to implement to draw England back to the faith.<\/p>\n He argues for the renewal of Christian political thought beyond merely a concern for the poor. Indeed, he suggests that religious apathy is partly a product of Christianity\u2019s removal from the political sphere.<\/p>\n A \u201cre-enchantment\u201d of the liturgy is also needed, he says, since liturgy forms the imagination and is crucial in \u201cgetting others to grasp the inwardness of Catholic Christianity\u201d. He cites Cardinal John Henry Newman\u2019s prediction that belief fails where \u201cthe imagination is against us\u201d.<\/p>\n Fr Nichols also stresses the need to \u201crecover lost ground\u201d in the intellectual argument for faith.<\/p>\n He argues there should be a \u201crevival of doctrine\u201d in catechetics and preaching, and a recovery of metaphysics to give people a \u201ccoherent and deep philosophy of the created order\u201d.<\/p>\n He proposes a stronger defence of the unborn and a recovery of the Catholic reading of the Bible \u2013 \u201ca reading of Scripture in the same spirit as that in which it was written, rather than in the light of academic fashion\u201d. He also calls for the \u201crevivification\u201d of the family through the re-union of domestic and work life. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dominikaneren Aidan Nichols har nylig utgitt en bok der han ber om full innsats fra katolikker for at England kan vende om til den katolske tro. Jeg ble tipset om dette fra en som leser denne bloggen, men jeg leste om boka allerede for noen f\u00e5 dager siden. 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\nHis comments will be seen as an implicit criticism of the direction of the Church in England and Wales. He points to \u201cflagship\u201d Catholic institutions which have \u201csuffered shipwreck through secularisation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nRe-enchant the liturgy
\nRecover the insights of metaphysics
\nRenew Christian political thought
\nRevive family life
\nResacralise art and architecture
\nPut a new emphasis on monastic life
\nStrengthen pro-life rhetoric
\nRecover a Catholic reading of the Bible<\/p>\n