[NYer]

Philip Jenkins is a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University and author of The Great and Holy War: How World War I Became a Religious Crusade.

[NYer]

Ping!

[GreyFriar]

ping

[captmar-vell]

All of us believers should be on our knees praying, today, right now,

First for those in harms way, and then for whats coming here if its not held off by prayer,

[stanne]

Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism each established themselves in the 1000s. Much later, Protestantism was established. For twenty years, living in the South, I have lived with something I never experienced in New York and part of it is hearing that Catholics are not Christians and any variation of that.

And the term Christian has been used for Protestantism, and pressured in a politically correct way. If I say protestant I am treated as a trouble maker, yet for twenty years in NY, we used this, I guess correct, term and no one cared. The Presbyterians, Episcopalians, the Methodists, as well as the Catholics and the Jews and the Orthodox all had beautifully built houses of worship. No problem.

In the South, we are agape, to deafened ears, on hearing, “no I’m not Catholic, I’m Christian”.

Yet, when talking about ancient Christian, I guess still active, buildings and people, in Iraq, the term Christianity is used.

Are they not Catholic?

I would imagine ancient means in the single digit centuries.

I imagine a theologian from Baylor has a tough time with this, as do many Baptists studying the ancient texts do, but for these headlines, could they separate Catholic from Christian? My mind is trained by them now to separate the two, as if the Reformation in the Middle Ages, not in Ancient times, was the beginning of Christianity.

Very very annoying

[NYer]

In one particular historical era, anti-Christian violence did irreparable damage to our historical sources.

Plenty of information in this article, for your RCIA class.