[NKP_Vet]

Russell E. Saltzman, a former Lutheran pastor transitioning to the Roman Catholic Church, is book review editor at Aleteia.

[Campion]

The Pelikan book is one of the few books written by a non-Catholic criticizing Catholicism which is actually fair-minded and accurate.

Unfortunately, one of his central theses seems to be "Catholicism is incapable of change or adaptation" ... and Vatican II was convened the year after he published.

[pbear8]

Perhaps we could find a better word, I don’t want to think of a convert as a tranny.

[Wilhelm Tell]

When I was a Lutheran, I noticed two paths. On the left, the desire to transform the church into a political and social activist lobby group (albeit a group that has a muted religious tint to it). On the other extreme, the desire to remold the church so it sort of resembles fundamentalist Baptist or conservative non-denominational churches. These Lutherans seem to be ashamed of the liturgy and they want to downplay it. At one Lutheran church I visited, I heard some parishioners speaking favorably about the pastor’s desire to add altar calls as a part of the service.

[NRx]

An extraordinarily well regarded theologian. In the end Pelikan himself left Protestantism.

[RnMomof7]

Luther's intent was never to leave Rome.. His goal was to bring Rome back to its biblical roots and stop the pagan practices that it had incorporated ...

Rome did not want to give up the cash it got from indulgences and selling relics ... so they decided first to threaten him and then to want him dead ...