tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4187921660490512253..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Eric MascallFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-64861538864695794602020-02-15T16:14:54.935+00:002020-02-15T16:14:54.935+00:00I would venture,tentatively, to suggest that what ...I would venture,tentatively, to suggest that what kept them back (as Richard asked) was the culture and architecture, the surroundings,institutions, their whole formation and childhood. As a convert, the things that held me back from taking the final step back in 1984 were not transubstantiation,papal infallibility,indulgences or purgatory ; no, it was the loss of those lovely buildings,services,Shaun Davieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00884286568978407343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-28251622150744816252020-02-15T05:23:48.196+00:002020-02-15T05:23:48.196+00:00I have never understood why the theologically luci...I have never understood why the theologically lucid Eric Mascall didn’t become a Catholic. I once asked Graham Leonard about that and he acknowledged it was strange.PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03820516649900899003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90201885028963402792020-02-15T03:09:53.564+00:002020-02-15T03:09:53.564+00:00"I would love to know what was so important t..."I would love to know what was so important to them that stopped them from doing so."<br /><br />In Mascall's case it was the debility occasioned by the series of small strokes which he suffered in the last months of his life, as I was informed nearly twenty years ago by Fr. Robert Gould, Mascall's friend for many years, an Anglican clergymen who became a Catholic about six William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-79396278950134463612020-02-14T19:58:42.647+00:002020-02-14T19:58:42.647+00:00Almost everything he ever published is in the Spec...Almost everything he ever published is in the Special Collections room of the McClay Library at the Queen's University, Belfast. The sometime Reader in Scholastic Philosophy, later Primate of All Ireland and Cardinal-Priest of San Patrizio donated his personal library some years before his death, which included Mascall go leor! I think he would recognise the truth of your description.Éamonnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11560394580179348894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45222915099053980602020-02-14T18:24:53.912+00:002020-02-14T18:24:53.912+00:00Here's some more great "patrimony" s...Here's some more great "patrimony" stuff that is sorely needed today: http://acl.asn.au/resources/propositional-revelation/Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-18654445247878337732020-02-14T15:15:44.218+00:002020-02-14T15:15:44.218+00:00Greetings from the German underground church!
I f...Greetings from the German underground church!<br /><br />I first encountered Mascall on your blog a good while ago and was immediately struck by his fine sensibility regarding the eucharist. I've since read most of his works on that subject, and I'm glad I did. His thoughts on theology are also truly consolatory.<br />I do indeed regards him as part of our Catholic patrimony ;)sophophilohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08702637625351214500noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72611498607433386122020-02-14T14:40:44.012+00:002020-02-14T14:40:44.012+00:00It works for me.It works for me.T. Leo Rugienshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02344794839915286795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71806594790665466612020-02-14T12:56:36.796+00:002020-02-14T12:56:36.796+00:00Yes. That's what it means.Yes. That's what it means.Fr PJMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12597780307057121375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80213637156308689542020-02-14T11:17:58.731+00:002020-02-14T11:17:58.731+00:00But the great names you allude to declined to take...But the great names you allude to declined to take the final step. I would love to know what was so important to them that stopped them from doing so. Surely not just habit or material advantage?Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01824005176362146901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45021550841312539972020-02-14T11:05:17.708+00:002020-02-14T11:05:17.708+00:00Father Mascall, pray for us. He is now part of our...Father Mascall, pray for us. He is now part of our Patrimony. And infinitely more Catholic too me than Pope Francis. Matthew F Klukhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04315970978087291635noreply@blogger.com