DEIFICATION AND CLARIFICATION SIR,—Mr. Charles Edwards criticises my quotation from
Bishop Gore and mentions a number of leading mediaeval theologians who accepted the doctrine of the Immaculate Con- ception. His admission that they were not all prepared to accept it helps to confirm my point that such doctrines are not things which have always been believed.
St. Paul was scarcely being eirenic when be wrote to the Galatians 'If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.' When the Roman Catholic Church insists on these ques- tionable doctrines it is trying to spread a very different Gospel from that which the Apostles believed and preached.
Modernist critics of Christianity are wont to say that our faith is based on a bundle of legends. Against this criticism we can main- tain that the Apostles were careful to insist that it was facts that they were proclaiming. not 'cunningly devised fables.' When Roman Catholic apologists display such thorough- going indifference to the distinction between fact and fable the only thing to do is to protest as forcibly as possible.—Yours faithfully,
JOHN W. KENNEDY
The Vicarage, Green Arbour Road, Thurcroft, Near Rotherham
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