Hello Michie.
Now that doesn't mean I am yet ready to cross back over the Tiber to Catholicism......at least not yet......
The thread below was actually a very good thread and article, tho the thread itself didn't garner much interest.
[I like to look back at older threads once in awhile]
6 Theologians Cross the Tiber
Aug 22, 2006
Going Catholic: Six journeys to Rome
Going Catholic Six journeys to Rome by
Jason Byassee August 22, 2006
When I ran into a friend from divinity school recently, we asked each other the normal catch-up questions. Then, in the same casual tone, she said, "So are you going to become Catholic?"
It's not that odd a question these days in theological circles.
Last year
a string of theologians left their Protestant denominations for the church of Rome.
The list includes three Lutherans Reinhard Hütter and Bruce Marshall, theologians at Methodist seminaries (Duke and Southern Methodist), and Mickey Mattox, a Luther scholar at Marquette; two Anglicans Rusty Reno of Creighton and Douglas Farrow of McGill University; and a Mennonite Gerald Schlabach of St. Thomas University............................
These converts have all been captivated by a catholic vision of the churcha vision they have come to believe is best realized in the Catholic Church. Braaten worries that "the very persons who ought to be troubled by this phenomenon will say to themselves (perhaps not out loud), 'good riddance, we won't be bothered by those dissenting voices anymore. We wish more of their ilk will leave.'"
A more widespread response might be that genuine catholicity is best promoted by the approach that Hauerwas describes, in which one refuses to despair over the church of one's baptism, believing that the Spirit can always renew the church. Still others might argue that a more influential and long-term movement in the church catholic is the trend of people leaving the Catholic Church because it will not ordain women or allow priests to marry.
Nevertheless, for those in mainline churches these converts raise in a pointed way the question of what it means to be evangelical, catholic and orthodox.
How did I miss this publication? Interesting post. Thanks. Off to read more...
Always good to hear about God helping us with Christian and world unity in the Catholic Church
