Lutherans

[gcnuss]

How do Lutherans feel about Catholics today, do you feel closer to protestants or Catholics?
Why do you stay Lutherans?

Among Lutherans you will find a wide variety of opinions about the Catholic Church. I am a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America which encourages good relationships with our Catholic brothers and sisters even though we remain separated. We are a part of the Lutheran World Federation which joined with the Catholic Church in signing the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

This doesn’t mean that all Lutherans – not even all who are in the ELCA – have favorable opinions of the Catholic Church. As I have noted in other threads, I have had difficulties with members of my congregation because I am perceived as not joining in their anti-Catholicism and, in fact, defending the Catholic Church on occasion.

Generally, I feel closer to Catholicism than to most Protestant denominations. However, I remain a Lutheran because I believe this is where I am called to be. While I understand that the Catholic Church believes otherwise, I am convinced that the fullness of the Gospel is known in the Lutheran church as well and I am called to preach, teach, and administer the sacraments in this part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

While I remain Lutheran, I fervently pray for the day when all Christians will be united around the table of our Lord.

 

[rush176]

With all due respect the two leading proponents of this stuff were both Catholic, one of them a Dominican priest.

Names:

Rosemary Ruether and Matthew Foxe

Of course wasn’t Luther a Catholic too?

 

[East_Anglican]

A Lutheran here.

I sometimes feel closer to Catholics and sometimes closer to Protestants.

For the most part, other Protestants, especially those of the more “evangelical” variety don;t really trust us because of our views on Baptism and the Lord’s Supper and of course, we have problems with their apparent desire to extricate themselves from history.

Same here as a Church of England Anglican.

Among Lutherans you will find a wide variety of opinions about the Catholic Church. I am a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America which encourages good relationships with our Catholic brothers and sisters even though we remain separated. We are a part of the Lutheran World Federation which joined with the Catholic Church in signing the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

This doesn’t mean that all Lutherans – not even all who are in the ELCA – have favorable opinions of the Catholic Church. As I have noted in other threads, I have had difficulties with members of my congregation because I am perceived as not joining in their anti-Catholicism and, in fact, defending the Catholic Church on occasion.

It sounds like Anglicanism.

Generally, I feel closer to Catholicism than to most Protestant denominations. However, I remain a Lutheran because I believe this is where I am called to be. While I understand that the Catholic Church believes otherwise, I am convinced that the fullness of the Gospel is known in the Lutheran church as well and I am called to preach, teach, and administer the sacraments in this part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

While I remain Lutheran, I fervently pray for the day when all Christians will be united around the table of our Lord.

I feel the same as an Anglican.

Have you noticed how we all agree when talking to Mormons here. It’s like the British pilot helped by the French Comunist resistance during world war II He thought “I may not agee with them but at least they are on the same side.”

Persecution makes us grow.

 

[bpp85]

Among Lutherans you will find a wide variety of opinions about the Catholic Church. I am a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America which encourages good relationships with our Catholic brothers and sisters even though we remain separated. We are a part of the Lutheran World Federation which joined with the Catholic Church in signing the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

This doesn’t mean that all Lutherans – not even all who are in the ELCA – have favorable opinions of the Catholic Church. As I have noted in other threads, I have had difficulties with members of my congregation because I am perceived as not joining in their anti-Catholicism and, in fact, defending the Catholic Church on occasion.

Generally, I feel closer to Catholicism than to most Protestant denominations. However, I remain a Lutheran because I believe this is where I am called to be. While I understand that the Catholic Church believes otherwise, I am convinced that the fullness of the Gospel is known in the Lutheran church as well and I am called to preach, teach, and administer the sacraments in this part of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church.

While I remain Lutheran, I fervently pray for the day when all Christians will be united around the table of our Lord.

 

[JMBNH]

The Anglican church and the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltics are in full communion, so all but merged. The German and Dutch Lutheran churches are more Protestant and thus not in full communion, but in fact are merged with their respective national reformed churches to form national protestant churches