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   From: ahnemann@optonline.net   
      
   "Christopher Henrich"  wrote in message   
   news:chenrich-5678A9.18384031032009@feeder.motzarella.org...   
   > The English writer Christopher Derrick, a conservative Roman Catholic,   
   > wrote a book titled _C. S. Lewis and the Church of Rome_. If I recall it   
   > aright, he proffered a /reductio ad absurdum/ of excessive ecumenism as   
   > tending to reduce the differences between denominations to something   
   > like the differences between regiments in an army: they have slightly   
   > different uniforms and customs, but are all aware of being fundamentally   
   > on the same side.   
   >   
   > I do not think that is absurd at all. Rather, it is a goal which may   
   > still be far away.   
      
    Maybe if one is talking about mainline Christian denominations.  CSL in his   
   letters to Father Calabria hoped along with the good Father for a uniting of   
   Christian hearts at the very least.  I don't see, for instance, Jehovah's   
   Witness and the Church of the Latter Day Saints and the like which have   
   altered or alternative scriptures, and in the case of the LDS a prophet who   
   is regarded as a god and whose revelation is regarded as the spoken word of   
   God, as merely a holding differing customs/uniforms.  There is a   
   _fundamental_ difference between those 'Christians' and Christianity-  of   
   the merest kind.   
      
   AJA   
      
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