JKR a Calvinist?Potterverse Destiny

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 121445


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Carol:
> For the record, I didn't mean an objection to the Christmas
> celebrations per se. I just thought it was odd that if she were a
> Calvinist, as some people have suggested, that she would recognize 
the
> Church seasons--Advent (Dec. 1-Dec. 24), Christmas (Dec. 25-Jan. 
26),
> Epiphany (Jan. 6-?)--that are celebrated in the Anglican, Episcopal,
> and (I think) Catholic Churches. I was watching specifically to see
> when she would take the decorations down, and she did it when a
> traditional Anglican or Episcopalian would, on Epiphany, the day 
after
> the Twelfth Day of Christmas (January 5). I don't know whether a
> Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) would follow that tradition. But 
to
> me both the way she celebrates Christmas (as a *season* between 
Advent
> and Epiphany) and the tradition of godfathers (and therefore of
> christening, or baptism as it's called in the Episcopal church) in 
her
> books seems CoE to me, with no suggestion of Calvinism.
> 
> Geoff, what do you think? Am I way off base here?

Geoff:
One point, I think in your list of dates above Christmas should be 
25th December-5th January.

In general terms, most people in the UK follow the "Twelve Days of 
Christmas" tradition in terms of decorations whether they are in the 
Anglican or Roman churches, free churches or non-believers. We took 
our decorations down as usual on the 6th. 

Again, most churches mark Advent nowadays with readings and the 
lighting of an additional candle each week to mark the four Sundays 
and a final fifth one on Christmas Day itself. This is a tradition 
which has become much more widespread as is the holding of 
Christingle services. When I was first a Christian in the early 
1960s, most non-conformist churches stuck just to the immediate 
Christmas season.