C. S. Lewis by Steve Lefemine

C.S. Lewis, bridge between Anglicanism and Rome


C.S. Lewis: A Bridge to Romehttp://www.bereanbeacon.org/articles/CS_Lewis_a_Bridge_to_Rome.pdf

C. S. Lewis – a bridge to Rome!February 12, 2011
http://www.standstillawhile.net/page/2/This article appeared in the Canadian Protestant League newsletter and is re-published with the permission of the author.
Copies of this article in booklet form are available by contacting CPL via the web link above.


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C.S. Lewishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis

Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, and both authors were leading figures in the English faculty at Oxford University
and in the informal Oxford literary group known as the "Inklings ". According to his memoir Surprised by Joy, Lewis had been baptised
in the Church of Ireland at birth, but fell away from his faith during his adolescence. Owing to the influence of Tolkien and other friends,
at the age of 32 Lewis returned to Christianity, becoming "a very ordinary layman of the Church of England".^[2]

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He slowly re-embraced Christianity, influenced by arguments with his Oxford colleague and friend J. R. R. Tolkien,


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After his conversion to theism in 1929, Lewis converted to Christianity in 1931, following a long discussion and late-night walk
with his close friends Tolkien and Hugo Dyson. He records making a specific commitment to Christian belief while on his way
to the zoo with his brother. He became a member of the Church of England ­ somewhat to the disappointment of Tolkien,
who had hoped that he would convert to Roman Catholicism.^[31]
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Lewis was a committed Anglican who upheld a largely orthodox Anglican theology, though in his apologetic writings, he made an effort
to avoid espousing any one denomination. In his later writings, some believe that he proposed ideas such as purification of venial sins
after death in purgatory (The Great Divorce and Letters to Malcolm) and mortal sin ( The Screwtape Letters), which are generally considered
to be Roman Catholic teachings, although they are also widely held in Anglicanism (particularly in high church Anglo-Catholic circles).

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J. R. R. Tolkienhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._R._Tolkien

He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis­they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings.
Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

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Prior to her death, Mabel Tolkien had assigned the guardianship of her sons to Fr. Francis Xavier Morgan of the Birmingham Oratory,
who was assigned to bring them up as good Catholics.
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Edith and Ronald were formally engaged in Birmingham, in January 1913, and married at Warwick , England,
at Saint Mary Immaculate Catholic Church on 22 March 1916.^[41]
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Tolkien was a devout Roman Catholic, _________________________


From Columbia Christians for Life:

Roman Catholicism is NOT Biblical Christianity:

e.g.:
Justification by works vs. Justification by faith alone;
Purgatory;
Apocrypha (added seven books to Roman Bible, plus parts of other books);
transubstantiation;
Romish Church Magisterium/Tradition vs. primacy of the Bible;
belief in Papal headship;
prayer and devotion/worship given to (Roman goddess) "Queen of Heaven" (see Jer. 7, and Jer 44) "Mary" (not the real Mary of the Bible);
infant baptism;
etc., etc., etc.
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Roman Catholicism is NOT Biblical Christianity http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/04/roman-catholicism-is-not-biblical.html
Five Reasons Why Roman Catholicism is not Biblical Christianitywww.ianpaisley.org/tiara.asp?printerfriendly=true

Evangelism to Roman Catholics by a former Roman Catholic priest:The www .bereanbeacon.org/ website is the ministry outreach of former Catholic priest Richard Bennett.


The Pope Kissing The Koran(Karol Wojtyla - "Pope John Paul II")
www.deceptioninthechurch.com/popekiss.html


Here is a photo of the Pope at the end of an audience with Patriarch Raphael I of Iraq where "the Pope bowed to the
Muslim holy [sic] book the Qu'ran presented to him by the delegation and kissed it as a sign of respect".



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Smokescreens Jack T. Chick
96 pages - Paperback
Dangers of the Ecumenical movement.



"The Two Babylons - Romanism and Its Origins," by Alexander Hislop (1916):www.chick.com/catalog/books/0185.asphttp://www.chick.com/catalog/catholicism.asp"Where did the practices and beliefs of Roman Catholicism come from? In this scholarly classic, first published over ninety years ago,
Alexander Hislop reveals that many Roman Catholic teachings did not originate with Christ or the Bible, but were adopted
from ancient pagan Babylonian religion, and given Christian names."

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