You just don't know about them. You should study up on this.
...there are Protestant Churches that have MORE in common with the Orthodox than do the Roman Catholics.Really? Apostolic Succession, the Seven Sacraments?
there are Protestant Churches that have MORE in common with the Orthodox than do the Roman Catholics.
>>Perhaps this is true of some in Lutheranism or remnants of orthodox Anglicanism. But Protestantism is built on the same Augustinian and Scholastic foundation as Latin Catholicism.
I know enough about Protestant and Eastern Orthodoxy to know that the two are miles apart as the author of this article makes plain.
Orthodox soteriology and sacramental teachings are closer to Rome’s than to Evangelicalism’s.
I’d say it’s a bit of a stretch to say that Protestantism in general is closer to Orthodoxy than to Latin Catholicism.
Evangelicalism would have just as many problems with the Orthodox beliefs about the prayers for the dead, prayers to the saints, iconography, Tradition as taught among the Orthodox as they do with Roman Catholic teaching.
But I’d concede that its approach to Mariology is far more Christological than Latin Catholicism. Perhaps this is why I as a former Lutheran have gravitated toward Byzantine Christianity more than to Latin Scholasticism.
Can you name those “Protestant Churches that have MORE in common with the Orthodox than do the Roman Catholics”?