Let me ask this question in all seriousness: Is the kind of unity the author is pursuing even Scriptural?
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Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101
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Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View PostLet me ask this question in all seriousness: Is the kind of unity the author is pursuing even Scriptural?Veritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostThat would rather depend on what you mean by "Scriptural" - which is, indeed, part of the problem. It can mean anything from "explicitly enjoined in Scripture" to "not incompatible with Scripture."
I'd agree that the veneration of icons isn't forbidden in Scripture (1) and so I must accept that as a part of your worship or tradition.
In the same vein I would hope that you'd understand that to me an icon is nothing more than kindling.
Our unity isn't in the form of worship but the object of our worship.
So I get hives when someone tries to change the form of my worship, in the name of unity, just as you'd develop a rash if I was made curator of a large collection of icons.
I think we can share a very high degree of unity while having different denominational affiliations.
I don't think having the same liturgy is a scriptural pursuit.
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1: You know I have my doubts about it actually being veneration but I'll take your word on it for the sake of this discussion.Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101
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I think we can agree that all Presbyterians are going straight to the hot place.Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101
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I'm sorry if I killed the thread.
If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner thinking about what I've done here.Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101
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Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View PostI'm sorry if I killed the thread.
If anyone needs me I'll be in the corner thinking about what I've done here.
I'm always still in trouble again
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Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View PostI think we can agree that all Presbyterians are going straight to the hot place.
The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View PostI think we can agree that all Presbyterians are going straight to the hot place."As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths." Isaiah 3:12
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Originally posted by Darth Executor View PostI think I'm gonna have to cancel one of my subscriptions, I seem to be getting the exact same content from you both here and on FB. I guess even you aren't immune to the age of clickbait and recycled content.Actually YOU put Trump in the White House. He wouldn't have gotten 1% of the vote if it wasn't for the widespread spiritual and cultural devastation caused by progressive policies. There's no "this country" left with your immigration policies, your "allies" are worthless and even more suicidal than you are and democracy is a sick joke that I hope nobody ever thinks about repeating when the current order collapses. - Darth_Executor striking a conciliatory note in Civics 101
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Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View PostMaybe you're like Grateful Dead fans - following the band from venue to venue.
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostI saw a Grateful Dead concert many years ago. I even remember bits and pieces of it.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by JB DoulosChristou View PostHi, everybody! ...
... (Naturally, our Roman Catholic and Orthodox friends will look somewhat askance at some of Leithart's proposals vis-a-vis their groups, for fairly traditional reasons. I'd like, if possible, for this discussion not to lapse into a rehash of that.) For those who don't have the book, Leithart has already sketched some of these ideas in some freely available articles:
Is Leithart thinking rightly about the current state of the church?
Is his vision for a future Reformational Catholic Church a good and healthy one?
Is it a feasible hope?Originally posted by JB DoulosChristou View PostLeithart's work is explicitly addressed to "theologically conservative evangelical Protestant churches"; he suspects that Roman Catholics may be less ready to really receive what he has to say. ...
From one of the linked articles by Leithart:
From an ecclesiological perspective, I am more liberal than most Catholics, perhaps (in other areas I am more conservative than many liberal Catholic theologoans), so I would encourage Reformational Catholics to consider not using an upper-case 'C' just as I encourage Roman Catholics to be much more appreciative of lower-case catholicism. True Christian community and action exists much more fundamentally at the local level. Universality of faith, practice, and communion cannot be imposed upon various local communions, and it would be pointless to even consider such an imposition of universal authority if there were not already an existing local Christian community.Last edited by robrecht; 10-29-2016, 08:05 AM.אָכֵ֕ן אַתָּ֖ה אֵ֣ל מִסְתַּתֵּ֑ר אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מוֹשִֽׁיעַ׃
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I don't think this idea has a meaningful future, nor should it.
Since being born again in early 1980, I have been a member or frequent visitor at dozens of churches that would fit the common understanding of "theologically conservative Protestant evangelical."
None have made a point of teaching any Creeds or Confessions.
None have a formal "liturgy." Many have a routine "way of doing things," and would probably be a bit discomfited to think this could amount to a sort of de facto "liturgy."
Most of them tend to regard "tradition" with some sense of suspicion and disdain. Many have problems with the word, "religion," as indicated by such sayings as "Christianity is not about religion, it's about relationship."
All place a high emphasis on being "born again" as an event involving conscious volition and firmly reject the idea that babies can be baptized into the Kingdom.
All practice "open Communion," in the sense that participation is not limited to members of a specific church or denomination. Any "born again" believer is welcome to partake, and no one is required to make any sort of public declaration to that effect before partaking.
I can't imagine any of them yielding on any of those points even a little bit -- nor should they.Geislerminian Antinomian Kenotic Charispneumaticostal Gender Mutualist-Egalitarian.
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Originally posted by Meh Gerbil View PostThat is agreeable to me and something I've seen in out in the wild - rare, but it does exist.
That said, I have to wonder what distinguishes a 'Reformational Catholic' from a 'Protestant'.
They sound like the same animal who has thrown off different sorts of evil to arrive at the same spot.
STM that Protestantism can survive the death of Protestantism in the West, perhaps not comfortably indeed, but easily enough. If Protestantism vanished utterly from the West, that would not in the slightest mean that Protestantism was no more. The death of Protestantism has been predicted before - why should current predictions be any more reliable than those that preceded them ?
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Originally posted by JB DoulosChristou View PostHi, everybody! I recently started reading Peter J. Leithart's new book The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church. In it, he offers reflections on the need for the assorted Protestant confessions to be subsumed in a new "Reformational Catholicity," which is the church's future. I'd like to start a discussion here of the thoughts that Leithart is putting forward. (Naturally, our Roman Catholic and Orthodox friends will look somewhat askance at some of Leithart's proposals vis-a-vis their groups, for fairly traditional reasons. I'd like, if possible, for this discussion not to lapse into a rehash of that.) For those who don't have the book, Leithart has already sketched some of these ideas in some freely available articles:
Is Leithart thinking rightly about the current state of the church?
Is his vision for a future Reformational Catholic Church a good and healthy one?
Is it a feasible hope?
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