protestantism

I find myself extremely bothered this evening, because, looking at this list of churches in Cambridge, MA, it dawned on me that the only churches there where one has some assurance of traditional theology, the Roman Catholic parishes and Christ the King Presbyterian Church (PCA) have the...

I am seeking to find out how many members have the experience of Eastern, Oriental or Assyrian Orthodox, Roman and Eastern Catholics, most Anglicans and many Lutherans of hearing the Nicene, Apostles or even the Athanasian Creed every Sunday. If you are a member of a Protestant Church other...

I wouldn’t dream of denying the Christianiy of a denomination that adheres to the Nicene Creed, like the SDA or the Roman Catholic Church. By the way, all legitimate Christian churches are Catholic, however you define legitimate; the exact qualifications for Catholicity are called ecclesiology...

The traditional Catholic, Brother Peter Dimond of the Most Holy Family Monastery, called into this Saturday's "reason and theology" LIVE YouTube show to confront Dr Robert Fastiggi on his claim that protestants and the orthodox are within the body of Christ. Br Peter enters the discussion at...

[By this, of course, I mean the diptychs in a liturgical setting, not the common art term for icons and paintings set in a diptych (two-fold) arrangement.] The diptych was once a literal object kept in the local church, made of wax tablets onto which the names of the living and departed...

Happy Easter! He is Risen! :blacksunrays: If you've been following my other musings the past couple days, you probably know a little of what I'm going through... how I'm questioning my Protestant heritage, and struggling with how to read Church history and remain a Protestant. If you're new to...

"The truth is not that allegory is Catholic, but that Catholicism is allegorical. Allegory consists in giving an imagined body to the immaterial ; but if, in each case, Catholicism claims already to have given it a material body, then the allegorist’s symbol will naturally resemble that material...

Howdy! I'm just curious to know if there's any Protestant here who does the Sign of the Cross. Why do you do it? If not, why not?

Since there is at least some focus this month on the reformation, the protestant reformation and how wide the GAP is between protestant doctrine and Catholicism - lets work out some of the details. While Luther may have "started" with 95 objections to selling indulgences.. that is not the sum...

Hi! I am a non-denom Christian and saw this article Wikipedia ---- Criticism of Protestantism - Wikipedia I found it troubling to say the least....How do we reply to these things??

This is a poll/thread for my fellow Protestant/Evangelicals. Some of you have no doubt seen this video or heard about it as it is a few years old, but I am still interested in hearing your thoughts on the matter. Here is the video to which I am referring: Ecumenism is by no means going away...

Today is the Glorious 12th of July, the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne, the Protestant version of St. Patrick's day. This is when Orange orders stage marches in honour of their Protestantism and their forebears. Why though is Ireland not Protestant today and Catholicism so closely...

My family is strictly Orthodox. We live somewhere where to be Protestant is equal to be in a sect. I am afraid to tell them (only my mother knows, but she thinks it is a phase and she advised me not to tell, which now, a year later, results in constant fear). Whenever this subject pops up my...

I found the following comment on Facebook a few days ago. Your thoughts? TL;DR: The rapture is nonsense and protestantism is heretical.

I do not hate Seventh Day Adventists. I furthermore do not uniquely object to their doctrines; there are several other denominations I am rather more aggrieved with. For example, many of the liberal mainline Protestant churches such as the UCC, the PCUSA, and so on, at times seem to exist only...

It is an interesting fact that if we superimpose the world's language families over the dominant religious traditions in an area, we find a remarkable similarity. Germanic countries like England, Lowland Scotland, Scandinavia or the Netherlands tend to be Protestant. Romance countries like...

If you look at the history of the Reformation in England, you see a constant back and forth. First we see Wycliffe and the Lollards in the 15th century with their proto-Protestant beliefs. Lollardy was quite powerful before the execution of Oldcastle destroyed them politically, but it remained...

From Texas Baptist to Orthodox Saint? by Terry Mattingly Wherever bishops travel, churches plan lavish banquets and other solemn tributes to honor their... Read more

Becoming Orthodox by Jim Forest I am sometimes asked how the son of atheist parents ended up not only a Christian but a member of the Orthodox Church. In fact it wasn’t so big a leap as it sounds. For starters my parents weren’t people for whom atheism was a religion unto itself. Their...

Fr. Seraphim Bell, Scotland & USA: "I became Orthodox for one reason: Obedience to the Truth"