I was a little disappointed in the Lutherans; (I believe it was them) at the interfaith ceremony after 9/11, they disciplined the Lutheran priest who had the audacity to appear with other clergy, which might lead people to think any other religions had validity.
Doesn’t sound like any Lutherans I know, except maybe Missouri Synod. On the other hand, the corporate media’s “go to” for Protestant views for ages was Martin Marty – a Missouri Synod theologian, and hardly doctrinaire. Sounds more like Southern Baptist or Roman Catholic, although there are enough exceptions even there. Please provide citations next time. As an ecumaniac Methodist, I would like to know.
As it was explained in my hearing ca 30 y.a., Missouri Synod Lutherans’ ancestors mostly emigrated from Germany, where the Reformation was largely a grass-roots rejection of Roman Catholicism. Hence they’re more like the more Calvinist Protestants, e.g. Baptists. ELCA Lutherans like myself are mostly Scandinavians, whose early Reformation was more like England’s – the king simply said, “We don’t owe allegiance to the Pope anymore,” and little else changed. Lutheran theology filtered in later.
At home I have a link to read the joint statement of what both Roman Catholics and Lutherans hold to be true.
i_am_the_jam over 7 years ago
Not to mention the whole thing with indulgences, “icons”, what the Virgin Mary’s actual role is….
kaffekup over 7 years ago
I was a little disappointed in the Lutherans; (I believe it was them) at the interfaith ceremony after 9/11, they disciplined the Lutheran priest who had the audacity to appear with other clergy, which might lead people to think any other religions had validity.
hippogriff over 7 years ago
Kaffekup
Doesn’t sound like any Lutherans I know, except maybe Missouri Synod. On the other hand, the corporate media’s “go to” for Protestant views for ages was Martin Marty – a Missouri Synod theologian, and hardly doctrinaire. Sounds more like Southern Baptist or Roman Catholic, although there are enough exceptions even there. Please provide citations next time. As an ecumaniac Methodist, I would like to know.
gcarlson over 7 years ago
As it was explained in my hearing ca 30 y.a., Missouri Synod Lutherans’ ancestors mostly emigrated from Germany, where the Reformation was largely a grass-roots rejection of Roman Catholicism. Hence they’re more like the more Calvinist Protestants, e.g. Baptists. ELCA Lutherans like myself are mostly Scandinavians, whose early Reformation was more like England’s – the king simply said, “We don’t owe allegiance to the Pope anymore,” and little else changed. Lutheran theology filtered in later.
At home I have a link to read the joint statement of what both Roman Catholics and Lutherans hold to be true.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 7 years ago
All they have to do is unite first as Lutherans.