What in theology prevent Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox from being simply "Christians"?

[concretecamper]

Of course there’s only one, that’s in the Nicene Creed. My point was merely that that church has been separated administratively, and in my experience only administratively, by uncanonical schisms.

not administratively. One Church, One Faith. Not One Church, a few different faiths.

 

[chevyontheriver]

not administratively. One Church, One Faith. Not One Church, a few different faiths.

If only it was an administrative snafu, a mere schism. Would you be able to find any one single statement of faith that would include everybody? I don't think even the Nicene Creed can do that anymore.

 

[The Liturgist]

If only it was an administrative snafu, a mere schism. Would you be able to find any one single statement of faith that would include everybody? I don't think even the Nicene Creed can do that anymore.

All the churches I listed, sure, although we do have the perennial nuissance of the filioque, which is actually a historic complexity even in the relations between Rome and the Sui Juris churches (if memory serves, the Eastern Catholics who spoke Greek never used it, but the Ruthenians did until “de- Latinization” post Vatican II).