Dark Book - Draco - Calvinism

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> lizzyben:
> 
> JKR is a member of the Church of Scotland, which was founded on
> Calvinistic principles. The official Church doctrine is contained 
in a
> document called the "Westminster Confession", which was written in
> 1647 & remains church law. The Confession preaches double
> predestination, salvation of the Elect, condemnation of the 
reprobate,
> and the five points of TULIP. 
> 
she is a member of a
> Calvinist church, and has stated that her religious beliefs will be
> apparent in the last novel. I think it's reasonable to believe that
> JKR's Calvinist/Protestant beliefs influenced the HP novels in the
> same way that Tolkein's Catholicism influenced LOTR, or CS Lewis's
> Anglican beliefs influenced Narnia. Why shouldn't it?

I just have to offer a factual correction here, though I don't want 
to get into the debate about the Calvinist nature or otherwise of 
JKR's beliefs.

JKR is not a member of a Calvinist church as she does not belong to 
the Church of Scotland but to an Episcopalian church in Scotland. I 
know that for a fact because some of my close friends are members of 
the same church.  The Episcoplian church in Scotland is part of the 
Anglican Communion and she is as much an Anglican as C S Lewis. 
Theories built on the Westminister Confession are on dubious ground 
since she is not a member of a church subscribing to the Westminister 
Confession. People seem completely unable to distinguish between the 
Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian though I am not sure it is  
always Calvinist, and the Episcoplian church in Scotland which is 
Anglican just as the Episcopalian church in America is. I speak as a 
fellow Anglican in a different part of the Anglican Communion and 
with no acceptance of Calvinist theology of predestination to eternal 
salvation or damnation. 

Mercia