Bless, Father,
Like you, I have grave reservations about the basic premise as enunciated in the use of EENS as a subtitle. However, it does have a rather interesting collection of materials. Although virtually all can be found elsewhere, I'm not sure that they are presently to be found anywhere else in such a collected state.
There are definitely Feeneyite aspects to it - the whole celebration of EENS and, of course, the piece on Dr Francis Maluf stands out in that regard. As well, other aspects of it are throwbacks to another time; the early 1960s material by a Father Murtagh from publications of the Catholic Truth Society of Ireland are dated and, at least in parts, offensive toward the Oriental Orthodox Churches that they describe.
Yet, it's an interesting collection. One needs to look at it as a resource. If one chooses to look at it as its author would hope - as authoritative - then one gets bogged down in its unacceptability for these times.
In that respect, it's like the online Catholic Encyclopedia, which is treated as dogmatic by both hard-core Catholic apologists and their equally hard-core Orthodox apologist counterparts - it serves the purposes of both - to bash one another. If you get past that, it is really a mirror of a slice in time. Read it and recognize how far we've come, hopefully.
Many years,
Neil
Edited by Irish Melkite (08/14/11 11:47 PM)
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