A fourth issue of Ordinariate News has made it up. It is now effectively the only item posted to the AC blog every week. This issue is, to my eye, free of spelling errors other than the fact that Fr Hunwicke’s name is misspelled, despite the fact that it is linked to a blog post by him which the writer must have looked at—-“Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment” is of course the title of the blog—-just before he then went on to spell his name incorrectly as “Hunnicke.” Does show he knows how to pronounce it. But I’m glad the editor is not a journalist in real life. Apparently he is an employee of this organisation although a member of the Connecticut Ordinariate group.For the benefit of Mr Perry, Mrs Gyapong, and the other august members of the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society, John Milton (1608-1674) was for much of his life a radical Protestant pamphleteer and political propagandist, and during the Commonwealth period was Oliver Cromwell's Secretary for Foreign Tongues. Although best known as the author of Paradise Lost, according to Wikipedia, "Milton embraced many heterodox Christian theological views. He has been accused of rejecting the Trinity, believing instead that the Son was subordinate to the Father, a position known as Arianism; and his sympathy or curiosity was probably engaged by Socinianism[.]"Otherwise the content is extremely thin. Cycles of intercession and the readings for Morning and Evening Prayer, both available elsewhere on-line, fill the equivalent of one of the four pages, as do excerpts from “Patrimonial” writers, of whom I see Milton is regarded as one. At one point the Anglicanorum Coetibus Society blog, though never as full a source of specifically Ordinariate news as its predecessor, Ordinariate Expats, had items posted almost daily. Now it has dwindled to this feeble weekly puff sheet, which solicits only “good news” and evidently finds it in very short supply.
In February 1649, less than two weeks after Parliament executed Charles I, Milton published The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates to justify the action and to defend the government against the Presbyterians who initially voted for the regicide and later condemned it, and whose practices he believed were a "growing threat to freedom." Milton aimed to expose false reasoning from the opposition, citing scripture throughout the Tenure of Kings and Magistrates to counter biblical reference that would cast holy and public disapproval on Parliament's actions. Milton’s case was not that Charles I was guilty as charged, but that Parliament had the right to prosecute him.So Milton wasn't Anglican, he wan't remotely Catholic, he was Calvinist except when he wasn't, his endorsement of the Creeds was shaky, but he's patrimonial. By this reasoning, we can almost say Marx and Engels were patrimonial, since after all they did live in England. How can we take these people seriously, and how can we take seriously their endorsement of Anglicanorum coetibus?
