The thread was opened because chapter 10 speaks to (Papal) primacy, a belief of non-members of the caucus who have an interest in speaking for themselves.
Caucus threads cannot be used as cover to attack the beliefs of non-members.
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Can you quote where it mentions Papal primacy?
Thank you.
I imagine a thread like this, a “Protestant/Orthodox caucus” thread could be used as much to discuss things that are different between the two groups as are in common.
In other words, as long as the discussion was kept to the particular beliefs of the two groups, it would be possible to discuss the differences that lie between them. The Orthodox, as an example, could provide their view of icons, and the Protestants thereby oppose those views with their own.
The Protestants could defend the solas, and the Orthodox could attack that defense.
But I guess my difficulty is, if the caucus label is going to be used to “screen out” certain folks, i.e., Catholics, then what happens if topics discussed include things believed by both Orthodox AND Catholics? After all, Catholics accept icons, and fully agree with Orthodox explication of the theology of icons.
To attack the theology of icons is to attack Catholic belief as well as Orthodox belief. How could a caucus thread that excluded Catholics be used to discuss the theology of icons in a negative way? Would not Catholics have a right to offer defense for this shared Orthodox/Catholic belief?
Thus, trying to restrict the caucus to topics of either only Protestant or Orthodox interest might yield a rather number of limited topics that one might discuss about Orthodoxy, and, ironically, perhaps all of those topics might be inappropriate for a caucus thread, in that those topics would almost certainly be points of contention between Orthodox and Catholics.
It seems to me that the only fit subject matter for such a caucus would be uniquely Protestant beliefs - the Protestant defense thereof and the Orthodox argument against them. And, of course, if the Protestants desired a caucus designation, their arguments on behalf of their uniquely Protestant beliefs would have to be presented in a way that didn't disparage those beliefs of the Orthodox held in common by Catholics, and also didn't disparage the beliefs of Catholics NOT held in common with the Orthodox.
Perhaps this particular caucus combination is a chimera.
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