Posted on 05/18/2007 6:16:16 AM PDT by Reo
Last month, Francis Beckwith--president of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS), noted evangelical philosopher, "God-blogger" and professor of church-state relations at Baylor University--was received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church. Shortly after, he resigned his presidency and membership in ETS, sending shock waves through the religious blogosphere and parts of the evangelical community.
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Welcome home!!
Sounds good to me. This article is just more proof evangelicals are not hatemongers, contrary to the idiocy purported by Democrats, liberals and the media.
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Welcome. It’s been happening alot these days. Good to see.
Yes, welcome home!
We crossed the Tiber a few years ago too. I heartily recommend it, a Christ-led journey. The influx of evangelicals brings a solid, Christ-centered, bunch into the Catholic Church. aaahhhh. Helps to remind the Catholic Bishops in America of what the Church really stands for.
If you are in the market for a Christian world view, as opposed to a navel view, your road will probably take you to Rome, Constantinople, or Geneva.
American fundamentalism is an awfully thin gruel. At its worst, it applies to only one point in time and space, the “sinner’s prayer” after an “altar call” at the front of the church.
In 1970, the “Jesus freaks” discovered and joyously proclaimed the artificiality of the temporal quarantine. God’s Presence could go with us through all of life.
A perspective I discovered in 1980, call it “Calvinism on steroids” smashed the spacial quarantine. God is interested in all of life, not just the “religious” part.
A journey I made myself about 25 years ago from the Lutheran Church. For anyone interested in hearing about the precepts and foundations of the Catholic Church I would highly recommend watching Fr. John Corapi on EWTN on Sunday evenings. His presentations are thoughtful, entertaining and very clear as to what the Church stands for.
Well, the man is following his own conscience and that is as it should be. He hasn’t betrayed me. But I do think it shocking that his idea of the gospel is so flexible. And I wonder also how he can go from not worshipping Mary to now praying to her and bowing before her statues. How can he just give over his understanding of Scripture to the authority of Rome? Or does he plan on being a bad Catholic?
I got into the Catholic vs. Evangelical arguement a few years ago on here, and it wasn’t pretty.
I won’t go into that again, and I would encourage Evangelicals and Baptists to refrain from bashing Catholics, and Catholics from bashing us.
My personal experience is the opposite...starting as a catholic and movign to Baptist.
I know my next statement will embolden those ready to attack, but I will state my viewpoint since this it a fre to post site. But note, I won’t respond to attacks, and probably will not post another response in this thread.
Protestants had there origin in the Catholic Church and as the Catholic Church adjusts its theology to a point that is more acceptable to the reasons Protestants seperated from the Catholic CHurch, the more Portestants will find the Catholic Church acceptable.
However, Baptists, will be less likely to convert since most of the Baptist teaching on theology is diametrically oppoased to Catholic doctrine, and key to that is the independence of the local church body.
Actually, for me it's not worshipping Mary so much as asking for prayer....much as I would ask my own mother for intercessory prayer, or pray for my children and grandchildren. As for scriptural authenticity, the first part of the "Hail Mary" is pure scripture (Luke 1:42) and the rest is a request for intercession. It's a family thing, Ghost; a great, big, wonderful family thing.....
This article is just more proof evangelicals are not hatemongers, contrary to the idiocy purported by Democrats, liberals and the media.
Yep and as a Catholic I have never been put down by Evangelicals here or truthfully anywhere. I don’t go to DU so I don’t know about there. Hopefully not too many Evangelicals there anyway. lol.
Catholics do not worship Mary. Catholics are not required to pray to her nor to bow before her statues. She is highly honored as the mother of Christ, an example of one who said “yes” to doing God’s will instead of her own, but she is not God, and we Catholics are well aware of that.
Catholics and other Orthodox Christians (in fact, about 3/4 of all Christians on earth) follow the ancient practice of praying to saints for intercession. The practice is completely optional and is not unlike an Evangelical Christian asking a friend, family member, church prayer group or pastor to pray for them. If one believes in the power of prayer, then the more prayers the better. Catholics also pray for each other and pray directly to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
I converted to Catholicism from a Protestant denomination many years ago. As my deeply faith-filled mother said, “It’s the same Jesus.”
By discovering that the successor of Peter has such authority.
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I am not going to discuss this more on this thread. I was just making a point about how I cannot understand how a person goes from one thing to the other.
Oh baloney. Most of the denominations have communities of the “faithful” and your term fundamentalism belies your bigotry. There will always be the “true spiritual church” and the liberal or false church—and the weeds grow right along side the good plants. Rome, Constantinopole, or Geneva can be as liberal and thin and ladened with “man’s doctrine” as the American fundamentalists. Those American fundamentalists have had a role to play in God’s kingdom just like the others.
It looks to me like Rome is not completely innocent when I look at the judgment that gets placed there at the end of time. All I can say is those who are returning to the Catholic church had better still place the bible and Jesus Christ before any man-inspired doctrine or they are worse off than they were before.
Let the religious wars begin.
We could have our own Sunni/Shi’a battelfield
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