Catholics and Evangelicals: Is There A Difference? »
Posted By pacodecabra 3 months, 1 week ago in ReligionIn 1992, a group of Evangelical Protestant and Roman Catholic scholars began work on a document entitled "Evangelicals and Catholics Together." Its premise was that Roman Catholics and Evangelical Protestants have reached a point where, in spite of some minor differences, they agree on the essential points of doctrine. Nearly two decades later, both the Pope and a leading voice in the largest Protestant denomination in the United States still seem to disagree with them.
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thoughtforsale3 months, 1 week ago
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I am a Protestant, and I hold it for indispensable that the Christian denominations stay in dialogue. I´ve often heard and read that people practising other religions can´t understand this specific Christian problem. How should they? In Germany, where I´m informed about the developments, I see a role back. Unfortunately, the efforts are uniliteral and only coming from the Protestant side. There was an oekumenic meeting in Berlin some years ago, where one priest dared to share the eucharistic sacrament with Protestants, too. He was excommunicated immediately and lost his permission to preach.
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This is the status quo, and it makes me sad, because at the base, on the regional level, inside the social structures of a town or city, there is a lot of fruitful cooperation. As long as the official Catholic church regards itself as the "only true church", there will be no step forward on the way of reconsiliation! -
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Endoscopy3 months, 1 week ago
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The basic problem is they are going to deep into the theology and not just concerning themselves with the core issues that all conservative Christians can agree with. The creeds do this very well. Who was Jesus and what was the reason for the cross. Who is the Father and the Holy Spirit. What is the church, etc. When you get too deep into the details of theology there is where the differences come into play. The best we can do in those areas is to agree to disagree.
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Georgia503 months, 1 week ago
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I think the term "Protestant" is way too outdated for continued use. Especially inasmuch as it propagates the falsehood that all believers are to be labeled from an orientation which assumes the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
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An authentic New Testament Christian is not to be perceived as a protester of anything but the sinful nature that Christ nailed to the cross. -
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