Beginning at Jerusalem

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Excerpt from Beginning at Jerusalem: Studies in Historic Communions of ChristendomArchbishop of Canterbury was a Greek monk and the pope was so suspicious of his eastern sympathies that he sent Adrian to England with him lest perchance he introduce something contrary to western tradition. It is a curious fact that the ene mies of Wiclif charged him with maintain ing opposmon to papal polity that All Christendom ought to live independently like the Greek Church. We must be ready to do full justice to Rome's work of consolidation while maintaining our own impregnable position nor minimizing the profound differences that separate us from her. England's insular location has given the national church a unique vantage ground. Close enough to the continent to feel the in¿uence of the religious life of Europe yet sufficiently removed to preserve her independent lines of development, the English Church has ever been in touch with the various factors that have entered into the spiritual history of men. We recall with pride that Alcuin an Englishman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.