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Recent content by Korah

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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    As a former Roman Catholic, I have of course (for me, anyway) read the Deutero-canonicals. I really liked Wisdom, but the rest doesn't ring my chimes spiritually, even Sirach is too worldly. I do approve of reading the selections in the lectionary. Helps keep the Fundamentalists away. Among...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    True, but it's strange that it's so. I was very content and well fitted for 23 years in Roman Catholicism (particularly including my fifteen years there as a Catholic Charismatic), for eleven years as an Episcopalian (1992-2003), and my first eight years in ELCA. I'm not impossible to please...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    Well, I have stated I was originally suspicious of the UMC as too liberal. (Parenthetically, the Free Methodists and the Wesleyans are too conservative out-of-sight.) After I became a Roman Catholic and left it, I was not inclined to join a church with no bishops (UMC has superintendents...
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    Luther, Augustine, and Two Kingdoms

    The best book on the general concept of religion and governance is Christ and Culture by H. Richard Niebuhr. He shows five types of relationships. Augustine represents a major type.
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    Athanasian & 16th Century

    I have heard the four council position explained as complete adherence to the first four councils supplemented by all Christological clarifications from the Fifth through the Seventh. That of course means accepting (with reservations) the Seventh from 787 which the iconodules won as against the...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    So on the one hand the UMC is the perfect local church for me to join that fits me exactly (and probably like me, more Charismatic than any Lutheran or Anglican alternatives).... But yes, now that I know the Methodists have adopted the censored Revised Common Lectionary, it won't be long until...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    I have not had any Methodist affiliations for five decades, but it would still be a comfortable fit for me. My complaint (opposite to NALC) is that it's TOO convenient (I could walk there), doesn't stretch my theological juices at all. In the 1960's I was suspicious of mainline denominations...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    You want to be my chauffeur for the 75-minute drive there to the NALC so I can be doing something productive on the way there (and back too!)?
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    I'm pretty happy with NALC, the North American Lutheran Church. It has the Augsburg Confession instead of the 39 Articles (thus free of Calvinism). I think it has the unexpurgated Revised Church Lectionary. The big negative is the Athanasian Creed, but it can be ignored as a medieval relic of...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    The United Methodist Church (I found out today) is among the mainline churches that use the expurgated Revised Common Lectionary. I had been thinking recently I would wind up Methodist. What stops me is that that's where I started (before adult baptism as a Roman Catholic), and what are the...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    Missouri Synod (or is it just WELS) still believes YEC, six-day Creation. Not so extreme, but not for me, they require the full 1580 Book of Concord, which brings in the unpleasant Athanasian Creed. Roman Catholic would be fine except I can't believe all that, left in 1992. Besides which I...
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    Visiting an Anglican Church tomorrow

    And it's why I'll be leaving ELCA soon, as soon as I find which denomination to join instead. (Everyone expects me to go Missouri Synod, but that's way too conservative for me.)
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    Revised Common Lectionary censors God's Word

    There are two subjects, however, of which the Revised Common Lectionary does seem remarkably shy. In the Epistles, there are seven passages affirming male headship (1 Cor 11:2-16; I Cor 14:33-36; Eph 122 The Revised Common Lectionary 5:21-24, 33; Col3:18; I Tim 2:8-15; Tit 2:5; I Pet 3:5-7)...
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    Athanasian & 16th Century

    , nor There are two subjects, however, of which the Revised Common Lectionary does seem remarkably shy. In the Epistles, there are seven passages affirming male headship (1 Cor 11:2-16; I Cor 14:33-36; Eph 122 The Revised Common Lectionary 5:21-24, 33; Col3:18; I Tim 2:8-15; Tit 2:5; I Pet...
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    Athanasian & 16th Century

    Here's an official list of denominations that use the Revised Common Lectionary: United States Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Christian Fellowship of the Unitarian Universalist Association Christian Reformed Church in North America Episcopal Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America...