Henry St John

Biographic Data

ID972071
NAMEHenry St John
GIVEN NAMESHenry St
FAMILY NAMEJohn
SIGNATUREJOHN H S
AFFILIATIONSThe Priory Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS57
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1928
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX1

  • Bolingbroke to the Three Yahoos of Twickenham 23 July 1726

    Henry St John, George SherburnCHAPTERThe Correspondence of Alexander…2018

    "Bolingbroke to the Three Yahoos of Twickenham 23 July 1726" published on by null.

  • Bolingbroke to Swift [August, 1723]

    Henry St John, George SherburnCHAPTERThe Correspondence of Alexander…2018

    "Bolingbroke to Swift [August, 1723]" published on by null.

  • Christian Unity and Institutionalism

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1964

    In a notable speech at the Vatican Council on November 20 last, the Archbishop of Westminster undertook, in the name of the hierarchy of England and Wales, to promote a fuller and more frequent dialogue with all Christians in this country of whatever denomination. The occasion was the opening debate on the Constitution de Oecumenismo. The Archbishop said that the hierarchy, for whom he spoke, gives its ready approval to this document and receives…

  • Ecumenical Studies

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1963

    A Catholic, whose interest in the movement for Christian unity urges him to make ecumenical contacts with other Christians amongst whom he lives, will find himself, at least in town and city areas, confronted by Presbyterians, by Methodists, Congregationalists and Baptists, and with a certain dominance of prestige by Anglicans. For his encounter a Catholic ecumenist will want to know about some if not all of these differing religious bodies; what…

  • Reunion or Conversion

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1963

    In recent months there has been controversy in the Catholic press casting doubt on the expediency of the 'reunion' or ecumenical work taking place within the Church, and promoted by the Secretariat for the Unity of Christians at the Vatican Council. It is said to be drying up the normal inflow of conversions, because some potential converts are encouraged to stay where they are in order to work for eventual unity between the Church and their own …

  • The Future Prospect

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1962

  • Ecumenical Survey: Prospects of the coming Council

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1962

    Last year's Conference for the discussion of Ecumenical Questions was held at Gazzada near Milan from September 19 to 23. Over seventy representatives were present, among them many names well known in ecumenical work, including two English priests, a Dominican and a Jesuit. The general theme of the Conference was 'differences compatible with Catholic unity.' It met under the presidency of Cardinal Bea, and Mgr J. G. Willibrandts was in the chair.…

  • Catholic Ecumenism 1962

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1962

    The year 1962 has seen a remarkable step forward here in England in the recognition of 'unity' or 'reunion' work as 'a particular charge and duty of the Church'; an 'excellent work', which 'should daily assume a more significant place within the Church's universal pastoral care'. In these words the Instruction of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office on the Ecumenical Movement describes the place of Catholic Ecumenism in the Church's apostol…

  • The Approach to Unity through the Scriptures

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1961

    In a television interview on the religious position of the Church of England recently given, the new Archbishop of York, Dr Coggan, said that he was an Evangelical, but with a high doctrine of the Church. This is as if his predecessor, Dr Ramsey, now Primate of all England at Canterbury, had said in a similar interview, as he might well have done, that he was an Anglo-Catholic but with a marked infusion of Evangelicalism.The very real fact that t…

  • Toleration and Conscience

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1961

    At the meeting of the World Council of Churches at Evanston in 1954 it was reported in the newspapers that a movement, within its organization, was pressing for a motion against the Roman Catholic Church condemnatory of its alleged persecuting activities against Protestants in such countries as Spain and Colombia. The motion was successfully shelved by the skilled and tactful chairmanship of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Fisher. It is ve…

  • One and Catholic

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1960

    The Russian Orthodox lay theologian Komiakov once said that the Pope of Rome was the first Protestant in the world, and this saying is generally taken to mean that, like the Protestants, the Pope proclaims doctrine as truth ex sese, non autem ex consensu Ecclesiae.Without going so far as this, Dr E. L. Mascall in The Recovery of Unity makes it the thesis of his two final chapters on the Papacy that its claim to universal jurisdiction has resulted…

  • Ecumenical Survey

    Open AccessHenry St John, Henry St JohnsARTICLEBlackfriars1960

  • Bible and Tradition

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1958

    Many who are interested in the growth of an eirenic theology which aims at solving some of the contradictions and oppositions of divided Christendom will welcome a sermon under the above title, printed in the December number of Theology. Implicit in its argument is an intimation that the historico-critical method, though an indispensable instrument in the hands of the theologian to assist him in establishing the true sense of Scripture, has prove…

  • Authority and the Anglican Mind

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1958

    The purpose and scope of this paper may be conveniently formulated in the following two questions: what are the obstacles which prevent our fellow countrymen, who are Christian believers, and men and women of good will, from recognizing the Catholic Church for what it is, the visible society in the world, which alone is Christ's Mystical Body and which alone speaks his word with the fullness of his authority; and, how far are these obstacles in t…

  • Anglicanism and the Papacy

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1958

    Work for Christian unity must, of course, envisage the removal of what are called the non-theological factors, obstacles of divergence of ethos, outlook and idiom of thought, which separate Christians and Christian allegiances. These seem to bulk larger in the minds of many ecumenists than the primary and basic obstacles which are purely theological. Dr Mascall's book wisely sets out to make theology the foundation of his approach to the problem …

  • Towards Ecumenical Understanding

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1958

    Christian unity is the concern of all these three books, and they are all of some importance; the first two for an understanding of the place of the Catholic Church in the ecumenical scene, and the third for the explanatory light it throws, from the Anglican side, upon the complex and debatable question of the Church of South India.Mr J. M. Todd sets out to explain the relationship of Catholicism to the Ecumenical Movement. His book, the first of…

  • The Doctrine of Intention

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLETheology1957

  • Old Priest and New Presbyter

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1957

    The book of this name by Professor Norman Sykes is a learned exposition, as impartial in the circumstances as it could well be, of the mind of the Church of England upon the problem of the Church's ministry. It examines the way the originating formularies of Anglicanism concerning the nature and necessity of episcopal rule have been understood and acted upon during the course of Anglican history. Professor Sykes's conclusion, after reviewing the …

  • Authority and the Ecumenical Dilemma

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1956

    The most recent pronouncement of the Holy See on the Ecumenical Movement is the Instruction of the Holy Office to Local Ordinaries of December 20, 1949. By its provisions Catholic ecumenical work, described in it as 'reunion' work, is safeguarded by cautionary measures and put under the direct supervision of the bishops, who are urged to give it prudent encouragement and direction, as a work which 'should daily assume a more significant place wit…

  • Anglicanism and the Church of South India

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1955

    Catholics have been hearing, during recent months, of the prospect of something like a crisis in the Church of England, and even of the possibility of a schism. The trouble has arisen from the anxiety, mainly of Anglo-Catholics, caused by the growing desire amongst Anglicans in general for the acceptance in full communion, as soon as may be, of the newly constituted Church of South India. Most Anglicans, and even many Anglo-Catholics among them, …

  • True Religion Now Established

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1955

    With the completion of the third volume of his massive history, Father Philip Hughes brings the story of the Reformation in England to an end, though it is an end only in the sense that the Elizabethan settlement had reached, at the death of the queen, a certain stability in its development. The first duty of a reviewer must surely be to congratulate Father Hughes on a great achievement. He has covered the whole general ground in closely-studied …

  • The Authority of Doctrinal Development

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1955

    During the past half century, throughout the Christian world both Catholic and Protestant, great progress has been made in the scientific and critical study of the biblical text, more particularly of the New Testament documents, and, in continuation of this, of the history of Christian origins. The Encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu of the present Pope bears witness to the multiple sources of progress in biblical studies and gives directives conc…

  • The Reformation in England. Vol. II: Religio depopulata. By Philip Hughes. (Hollis & Carter; 42s.)

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1954

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  • The Appeal to Sound Learning-II

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1954

    Against the general background, which we attempted to outline in a previous article, it is now possible to fill in with greater detail the main elements of the Catholic approach to truth in contrast with the Anglican appeal to sound learning; and this with no controversial intention, but with the eirenic aim, not indeed of resolving the contrast, but at least of showing it less in caricature, and in truer proportions and balance. The true followi…

  • The Appeal to Sound Learning-I

    Open AccessHenry St JohnARTICLEBlackfriars1954

    The apologetic defence of the central Anglican position, if the extremes of Anglo-Catholic papalism and Protestant fundamentalism are excepted, finch its final justification in an appeal to sound learning. The formula is Bishop Creighton's. It was the application of this principle, he maintained, that brought about the changes made in the English Church in the sixteenth century. Not that the Church of England claims a monopoly of learning, but th…