Posted on 12/22/2014 6:17:46 AM PST by marshmallow
(LWI) Rev. Martin Junge, General Secretary of The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) says relations between the Lutheran and Catholic churches have reached an epoch-making turning-point.
Speaking during a panel discussion, held 18 December, in the Lutheran church in Rome, Junge emphasized that the relationship between Lutherans and Catholics was being transformed from conflict to communion. Precisely in a world in which religion and faith are regularly portrayed and perceived as trouble makers, he said it was a phenomenal testimony that the Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches continued to move towards a profound communion that frees us to serve God and the world.
Alongside Junge on the panel were, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) Kurt Cardinal Koch, the Catholic representative of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany Bishop Karl-Hinrich Manzke, and the chairperson of the Ecumenism Commission of the German Episcopal Conference Bishop Gerhard Feige.
Junge and Koch took the opportunity to announce plans for a common liturgical guide in connection with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, of which publication is scheduled for 2015. Looking towards 2017, the Lutheran - Roman Catholic material is intended to enable churches all over the world to review the 500 years of Reformation. The guide will follow on from the dialogue document From Conflict to Communion published by both partners in 2013, and transpose it into liturgical acts. The material will reflect the structure of this document with its triple form of penitence for the wounds mutually inflicted; joy at the insights and dimensions of the Reformation; and hope for unity.
The panel also discussed the question of what exactly was to be commemorated in 2017. Not church division, nor the 500th anniversary of a church and certainly not any heroic actions, Feige was.......
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Umm, Luther held a doctorate in theology and had been ordained bt the Catholic Church 10 prior to the Reformation.
-— Ive never understood why anyone would consider him as theologian. -—
Compare Luther’s writings to St. Thomas’ Summa Theologica. There’s nothing to debate.
....fixed that
I think that if there is an attempt at reconciliation here, the Lutheran church and the "reformation" will, indeed, be taken to task for the damage that they have incurred.
There should be admissions of "guilt" and an acknowledgement that they are RETURNING TO THE FOLD so to speak if they reestablish communion with the Catholic Church....I think that the church of England is kind of doing that now.
It sure is. It's a start to wholesale apostasy from the Catholic Faith.
Whoop de doo! Satan WAS an Angel in his day.
Well, for that to happen you boys will have to get busy shedding non-Biblical doctrine and practice. I hope you do.
LOL. We have no communion with lib 'lutherans' as they are apostate, fleeing the Word of God, substituting their own judgements. In that respect, you guys might find common ground. On the moral front, the Catholic church can't really embrace them, at least until the Pope fixes the Catholics.
Because he smoked the best you had like Grant took Vicksburg?
He's still an angel.
Whose "judgements" are you using?
The Pope's?
Those outlined in God's Scripture.
The Pope's?
Considering how that's working out for Catholics, I wouldn't rate his as an upgrade.
Leftover copy, obviously meant to reference your point of Satan as an angel.
So whose judgements are you using?
Don't say your own.
That's what the naughty "lib Lutherans" are doing.
A tautology.
The question is.... "whose judgement are you using in understanding Scripture?"
I've told you, God's as revealed in His Word.
Don't say your own. That's what the naughty "lib Lutherans" are doing.
Why would I say 'my own'? And they are not just 'naughty'. That gets you coal from Santa, apostasy eternal damnation.
Can you not read in the vernacular? Scripture interprets scripture, takes care of the difficult passages. As a Christian, my understanding of the scripture is informed by the Holy Spirit, as promised in those same pages.
Like Grant, Luther was a drunkard.
How profound! Who taught you that? Luther?
Another tautology.
So God's Word reveals to you how to understand the same Word?
You're just kicking the can.
You know what I going to ask next, don't you?
Why would I say 'my own'?
If your understanding of God's word is not yours it's somebody else's.
Whose?
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