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Benson, Confessions of a Convert
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Page after page I find him expressing things that are part of my experience too. Here he points to the inherent fragmentation of Protestant teaching/theology. When you cherry-pick what you like and what you don't like, crucial elements are missing. It is something you don't really see until they are in the review mirror.
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Page after page I find him expressing things that are part of my experience too. Here he points to the inherent fragm..."
That reminds me of a quote from St. Augustine I just recently came across:
"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."
Robert Hugh Benson begins with stating that it is rather hard to make “real comparisons between the rapidly fading impressions of Anglicanism upon his memory.” He continues, “He no longer, as in the first months of his conversion, is capable of comparing the two systems of belief together, since that which he has left appears to him no longer a coherent item at all”
So he writes he will not even try, “to place side by side with his drowsy memories of Anglicanism the story of his vivid adventures under the sunlight of Eternal Truth.”