Posted on 03/31/2008 11:26:20 AM PDT by NYer
Dr. Robert Koons, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, has followed Francis Beckwith into the Catholic Church.
I am a former Lutheran (Missouri Synod) myself. When I came into the Catholic Church I felt as if I had come home from a long trip. I would strongly urge all Lutherans to do some reading and study on the Catholic Church before they flatly refuse to understand it.
Dr. Robert Koons, professor of philosophy at the University of Texas, has followed Francis Beckwith into the Catholic Church.
Welcome Home!
Thanks for the welcome. I converted to Catholicism over 25 years ago after being born, baptized and confirmed a Lutheran and am from an old German Lutheran family. I even have my grandfathers confirmation certificate in the original German. But, as time goes on and I read and study more, the more I’m convinced in the rightness of my decision.
“When I came into the Catholic Church I felt as if I had come home from a long trip.”
Yes!!! My mother left the Catholic church and had NOTHING good to say about it. I was basically raised in an atheist home. At age 18 I became “born again” (nondenominational Christian). I was never, ever comfortable in the evangelical churches I attended—but I knew I did not belong with nonbelievers.
In 1996 I married the best man in the whole wide world—a “cradle Catholic”. I was FINALLY was baptized, confirmed & received my first communion during Easter Vigil 2005. In August 2005 hubby and were remarried in the Catholic Church.
I am overjoyed to be Roman Catholic. When I go to mass, I know that from the day I was born, this is where God always wanted me to be.
RooRoo and Ladtx— Thanks for sharing your joy—it becomes our joy, the joy of the Church. I say that not out of a sense of we’re right-they’re wrong, but out of a deep and fulfilling sense of communion with you. Conversion is a constant process for all of us including ‘cradle’ Catholics. Anyway, thanks again.
The feeling is the same when a lapsed Catholic returns. I was in the wilderness for over 30 years before returning to the Catholic Church. I'll never leave again!
Thanks for posting this inspirational narrative, NYer!
He admits it is a flawed document and lacks clarity. It has probably caused more aguments than it has resolved.
But...but...but...people keep telling me that the Lutherans (all of them) approved the Joint Declaration!
“established by the continuous tradition of teaching by the Church, and as reflected in the writings of the Fathers and the decrees of Councils”
Do you also feel these are infallible? They were written by men centuries after the Scriptures.
The term “papal infallibility” can apply only to the Pope.
Read the entire statement, in context.
Note that in this quote, the author is describing his beliefs as a Lutheran.
Further, please not especially the parts I have underlined for emphasis. They just so ... so ...Catholic.
“I believed that the late medieval church (in the form of both the Scotists and the nominalists like Ockham and Biel) had distorted the doctrine of salvation or justification, embracing a kind of Pelagian error: that is, the notion that human beings can save themselves through the exercise of unaided human reason and will. I still believe this to be so (as do many, if not most, contemporary Roman Catholic theologians). I also believed that the Church erred in its brusque condemnation of Luthers early protests (again, a view I still hold”
Funny, I never heard that admission here.
Ping!
Happy Easter. Christ is risen!
Alex.
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