{SELF, SALVATION AND SAINTHOOD}[31st March 1987]

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I have been interested to read (and to try to understand) the ARCIC* report 'Salvation and the Church' (as extracted in The Times); and Clifford Longley's** mention of Pelagianism***, in the context of the Masons****. It looks (in a no-doubt over-simplified perception) as though the Protestants thought the Roman Catholics were Pelagians. Perhaps I am a neo-Pelagian: I should have expected slightly more overt recognition of the freedom of the Individual to choose Christ, or not, in the ARCIC view. If one were to suggest two elements: God's gift (of Christ), and Man's choice (of Christ), would either side reject this (I mean, either of orthodox# and Pelagian)? But I may be talking of what they describe as Sanctification, or Justification and Sanctification#*, rather than simply Justification, which I'm not sure that I really understand the meaning of.

*[The Anglican—Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC)]

**[Also in The Times, presumably, as Longley was its religious affairs correspondent.]

***[The belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid. (--Wikipedia)]

****[Freemasons]

#[Note, orthodox not Orthodox.]

#*{[Justification:] ?The putting right of the Individual with God?} [Sanctification is the act or process of acquiring sanctity, of being made or becoming holy. Justification, in Christian theology, is God's act of removing the guilt and penalty of sin while at the same time declaring a sinner righteous through Christ's atoning sacrifice. In Protestantism, righteousness from God is viewed as being credited to the sinner's account through faith alone, without works.(--Wikipedia)]

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