Dark Book - Draco - Calvinism

[lizzyben04]

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Mercia:

> 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. ... 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
>

lizzyben:

Sorry, that's just not true. JKR is a member of the Church of
Scotland, as she has stated in many interviews. The Church of Scotland
is not Anglican or Episcopalian, & it is not a branch of the Church of
England. The COS does subscribe to the "Westminster Confession". 

Church of Scotland
JKR has said in several interviews that she attends the Church of
Scotland. Since she gave her daughter Jessica a copy of Jessica
Mitford's Hons and Rebels for her "christening" gift, it may be
inferred that Jessica was baptized in the Church of Scotland after JKR
returned to the United Kingdom when Jessica was only three months old.
One article explicitly says that Jessica Rowling was christened in an
Edinburgh congregation of the Church of Scotland, though a specific
church was not cited (WP1).
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/muggle/encyc/muggle-c.html#chepstow

"In Edinburgh, mother and daughter belonged to a Church of Scotland
congregation. Jessica was christened there. At church Rowling met an
older woman named Susan, "who's coming on to 70" and never married.
"We were not 'dead certs' for friendship," The elderly woman would
take care of Jessica for an afternoon and encourage Rowling to get out
a little, kick up her heels, see an art show, do some window shopping.
Instead, Rowling would find an empty table at a coffee shop and work
on Harry Potter....  Rowling never showed Susan her work. "I was very
very very insecure," she said. "I never showed anyone my writing." Her
secret project was "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," the
first in the series. 
Weeks, Linton. "Charmed, I'm Sure," The Washington Post, October 20, 1999

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/1099-post-weeks.htm

"Outlining these complexities, she speaks of some of her own beliefs
and inspirations - including her involvement with the Church of
Scotland..." 
("Who hasn't met Harry?" Guardian Unlimited, February 16, 1999)
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/1999/0299-guardian-carey.htm

"Interestingly, although Rowling is a member of the Church of
Scotland, the books are free of references to God. On this point,
Rowling is cagey. `Um. I don't think they're that secular,' she says,
choosing her words slowly. `But, obviously, Dumbledore is not Jesus'
(Time Magazine, July 17, 2005).
http://hogwartsprofessor.com/?p=22

"She's a member of the Church of Scotland and, whenever she's asked,
says, "I believe in God, not magic." In fact, Rowling initially was
afraid that if people were aware of her Christian faith, she would
give away too much of what's coming in the series. "If I talk too
freely about that," she told a Canadian reporter, "I think the
intelligent reader -- whether ten [years old] or sixty -- will be able
to guess what is coming in the books." 
(American Prospect, Feb, 25, 2002)
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=fantasia_the_gospel_according_to_cs_lewis