still a few years off from his conversion to the Catholic Church, he provides, in one stroke, the main difference between Protestantism and Catholicism. He pointed out that the Church of England believed that there existed something “definite in its outline … recognized as the faith,” which is the “property of each individual.” And because this faith, which certainly sounds like Lewis’s “mere Christianity,” is the “property of each individual,” an individual Christian “may battle for it in his day,”
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