[Magdalen] Salve Regina.

[Simon Kershaw]

On 2019-08-22 03:24, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> The Episcopal Church also uses the Apocrypha, and it shows up in the
> lectionary from time to time.

The general Anglican view (if there can be said to be such a thing) is 
that the OT Apocrypha are read for edification, but not to establish 
doctrine. If I recall correctly, the articles attribute this position to 
St Jerome.

The point is that Judaism does not regard those books as canonical, and 
at the Reformation the protestant churches resolved to exclude the books 
from the canon, whilst the Roman Catholics decided, at the 
counter-reformation Council of Trent that they should definitely be 
included as the deutero-canonical books.

It's a finely balanced position!

simon

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