Posted on 06/07/2018 2:59:03 PM PDT by ebb tide
(LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) together with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU), as well as the Methodist, the Reformed and the Anglican communion will start a consultation process to discuss spiritual and ecclesial implications of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.
“We have now five signatories of this ecumenical declaration,” says Kaisamari Hintikka, LWF Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations. “We feel we are called to ask together what kind of spiritual and ecclesiastical consequences the JDDJ might have for our churches.”
The signing of the Joint Declaration on Doctrine of Justification in Augsburg in 1999 was a milestone in the Catholic- Lutheran dialogue. It was built on 30 years of continuous ecumenical dialogue between Lutherans and Catholics.
On 18 July 2006, following an internal process, the World Methodist Council, meeting in Seoul, South Korea, voted unanimously to adopt the Declaration. In July 2017, the World Communion of Reformed Churches formally associated with the Declaration at an ecumenical prayer service in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany; and the Anglican Communion affirmed and welcomed the substance of the Declaration in the meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in April 2016 and publicly signed it at a prayer event at Westminster Abbey on 31 October 2017.
On 31 October 2016, Lutherans and Catholics jointly commemorated the Reformation anniversary in Lund, Sweden, presided over by Pope Francis together with the leadership of the Lutheran World Federation, as well as with their ecumenical partners on the worldwide level.
“We are witnessing momentum in our shared ecumenical journey,” Hintikka says. “This consultation is meant to appreciate and to use that gift, which calls us to healing the wounds in the body of Christ.”
We are witnessing a certain momentum in our shared ecumenical journey. This consultation is meant to appreciate and to use that gift, to heal the wounds in the body of Christ. — Kaisamari Hintikka, LWF Assistant General Secretary for Ecumenical Relations
The consultation was planned at a meeting of the five signatories in Rome, Italy, and will take place in March 2019. It will also feature a public lecture or panel discussion about ecumenical relations.
“This consultation will be the beginning of a process, that aims to respond to the aspirations of the people in the pews,” Hintikka says. “We want to offer our churches recommendations in order to grow in communion.”
NO SALE.
the beginning of a process, that aims to respond to the aspirations of the people in the pews ...”
Beginning of a “process”? We all know where that will lead.
Also, the aspirations of the people in the pews is totally irrelevant ~ they may take it or leave it, but they cannot ever be allowed to make the rules!
Sorry, I had a spastic moment while replying...
Re the LWF in the USA represented by the Evangelical Lutherans, or ELCA:
The ELCA ordains women as pastors, a practice that all three of its predecessor churches adopted in the 1970s. Some have become synod bishops. ...The most recent ELCA hymnal, Evangelical Lutheran Worship, includes alternate gender-neutral invocations and benedictions in all settings. All of the psalms and many of the hymns and parts of the liturgy have been altered to remove masculine pronouns referring to God.
Ordination of LGBT clergy and blessings of same-sex marriages; on August 21, 2009, the ELCA’s Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis voted to allow congregations to call and ordain gays and lesbians in committed monogamous relationships to serve as clergy.
Yeah, me too. Unless Catholicism agrees with Lutheranism about justification by faith alone, I can't see how there can be any "healing" unless they expect everyone to ignore that gaping hole. Watering down the gospel is never a good thing.
Bookshelf ~ informative, shocking, and ultimately heartbreaking reply...
That the ELCA has sunk to these depths is shameful.
One world religion of the book of Revelation? If it is, the anti Christ will eventually destroy it.
The LWF is about as Lutheran as Pope Francis is Catholic—at least according to his detractors here on FR.
In short, it’s a bunch of leftists blathering on about leftism and trying to disguise it as the Christian faith
A pox on both their houses.
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