Traditional Theology Census

[charles at doctrineprimer]

Post here and your faith tradition so we can get a sense of who's who.

I have been a Baptist for about 45 years

 

[Dialogist]

Post here and your faith tradition so we can get a sense of who's who.

Eastern Orthodox

 

[dms1972]

Mission fellowship, with Presbyterian connections.

 

[Gregoire de Nazianze]

Hi, I' m French Canadian confessing catholic Christian or pro-testant (pro=for/testari=confess). I believe in Jesus-Christ, attested by the unaltered Nicene Creed, according to the scriptures, ALONE.

 

[Tangible]

Hi, I' m French Canadian confessing catholic Christian or pro-testant (pro=for/testari=confess). I believe in Jesus-Christ, attested by the unaltered Nicene Creed, according to the scriptures, ALONE.

Soyez le bienvenu. I like the way you describe yourself. What church body do you attend?

 

[J. Bleize]

Protestant (although I do not want to belong to any "group", and see divisions as pointless) I believe solely in what is said in the Scriptures.

 

[topcare]

Welcome to the forums. That's not really Traditional Christianity

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

Protestant (although I do not want to belong to any "group", and see divisions as pointless) I believe solely in what is said in the Scriptures.

Welcome to the forums. That's not really Traditional Christianity

Sola Scriptura is a tradition that goes back about 500 years.

 

[topcare]

Maybe but it's not Traditional however, Traditional means we don't go by just Scripture alone

 

[Aelred of Rievaulx]

Aelred - Catholic with sympathies to Orthodoxy and interest in the wide plurality of pre-Tridentine Christianities and Syriac and Ethiopian Orthodoxy.

 

[DanielGarneau]

I was born and raised in a Roman Catholic family in Quebec, Canada, in the 50's and 60's. It was while living in Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta in the 70's, that my interest in reading the Bible was kindled, through non denominational and pentecostal Christians. Back to my home town in Quebec in the 70's, my faith was nurtured in a Baptist church fellowship until 80's, and then in non denominational context to this day.

 

[MoreCoffee]

Sola Scriptura is a tradition that goes back about 500 years.

But not an apostolic tradition.

 

[NonTheologian]

Eastern Orthodox. Former Roman Catholic.

 

[jesus4gaveme03]

Raised Catholic, visited various churches during my adolescent life as my family moved around. During my military career, found Southern Baptist to be the most welcoming to me. Now I am exploring my witnessing abilities through Living Waters and the School of Biblical Evangelism.

 

[Paidiske]

Anglican priest, in the diocese of Melbourne, Australia. I was not raised going to church, and was baptised as an adult.

Old Catholic priest via any number of others.

A colleague in communion with Canterbury! I've never actually met an Old Catholic priest; they are very small in Australia. Delighted to meet you here.

 

[OzSpen]

Anglican priest, in the diocese of Melbourne, Australia. I was not raised going to church, and was baptised as an adult.

A colleague in communion with Canterbury! I've never actually met an Old Catholic priest; they are very small in Australia. Delighted to meet you here.

Paidiske,

Are you an Anglican in communion with the evangelical Anglican Ridley College in Melbourne or not?

Your Brissy mate,
Oz

 

[Paidiske]

Ohh, now there's a loaded question!

There are two Anglican theological colleges in Melbourne, and I went to the other one. But yes, we are actually in communion.

 

[OzSpen]

Sola Scriptura is a tradition that goes back about 500 years.

Mark,

That is not what I've found in my research of the early church fathers. There is language in some of these prominent fathers that sounds awfully similar to Sola Scriptura.

See my article: Is there no ‘Scripture alone’ in early church fathers?

Oz

 

[OzSpen]

Ohh, now there's a loaded question!

There are two Anglican theological colleges in Melbourne, and I went to the other one. But yes, we are actually in communion.

I know there are 2 Anglican Colleges in Melbourne, so I was checking which one you attended. So you attended Trinity College and not Ridley College. I find it interesting that both of these colleges, with different traditions, are located in the same suburb of Parkville, Vic.

Does that reveal that you are in the liberal (modernist or postmodernist), Anglo-Catholic tradition in Melbourne?

Oz

 

[Paidiske]

I know there are 2 Anglican Colleges in Melbourne, so I was checking which one you attended. So you attended Trinity College and not Ridley College. I find it interesting that both of these colleges, with different traditions, are located in the same suburb of Parkville, Vic.

Does that reveal that you are in the liberal (modernist or postmodernist), Anglo-Catholic tradition in Melbourne?
Oz

Both colleges have historical links to the University of Melbourne, which is why they're so close together.

Not exactly, about me. Okay, a bit of my story: I came into the church as an adult (was 22 when I was baptised). I originally attended a parish that was out on the charismatic-evangelical edge (although back then I didn't know that there were different kinds of Anglicans). I worshipped there for quite some years and was married there, but when I started to discern a vocation to ministry, they wouldn't support a woman who felt called to a leadership role.

So I moved from there and started exploring a bit. When I came to choose a college, I looked at and was impressed with both colleges, but I was very aware by then that I had had a very narrow exposure to the church, and I was still a relatively young Christian (I started college at 27). So I thought it would be good for my formation to develop some appreciation of the breadth of the Church by studying in the college of the less-familiar end of the tradition. Also, at that time Trinity had an arrangement with the both the Jesuit college and the Uniting Church college to share classes, so if I went to Trinity I would be studying with lecturers and fellow-students from other denominations as well. And I thought that would be good for me (and it was).

So I went to Trinity despite being probably the least Anglo-Catholic student there, and very much a fish out of water in terms of churchmanship. I did field placements in a range of settings - on both sides of the tradition - and my first curacy was in a very Anglo-Catholic parish. Now, in my second curacy, I work across two neighbouring parishes, one of which is evangelical and one is Anglo-Catholic.

Today I would say that I am able to work across the breadth of the traditions in Melbourne, in terms of liturgy and spirituality. I am not a liberal (at least, I don't consider myself one; I suppose some people would say an ordained woman is a liberal by definition), but boringly orthodox in my theology.

But I think it's also worth saying that despite Trinity having a "liberal" reputation, I didn't find its staff or teaching particularly so. On the whole my lecturers were profoundly godly men and women whom I could look up to as exemplars in the life of faith.