Faith was a gift…

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“He [Keble] was altogether out of sympathy with the school of rational theology which treated Christian truth as though it were a philosophy of life, God as though He were a theory to be demonstrated, and faith as though it were the assent of the mind to proven, or to highly probable, propositions.  Faith was a gift, its source the Holy Spirit acting through the authoritative teaching of the Church, its medium the sacraments of the Church.”

– Owen Chadwick, “The Spirit of the Oxford Movement: Tractarian Essays;” 1990, p. 24.

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