Question:What does the Church say about the Protestant confessions (Concordia)?

[Wesley7]

Question:What does the Church say about the Protestant confessions (Concordia)? . .

 

[GeorgeTheWild]

What do you mean by the “Protestant confessions”? Are you asking about protestant views of the Catholic sacrament of confession or about Protestant confessions of faith and creeds used by Protestants?

 

[Sarahforgiven]

May be referring to a general confession. In the Episcopal church, for example, a general confession is said by the entire congregation before the Eucharistic celebration. Also there is a “form” for individual confession, if one desires (I never saw it encouraged or exercised).

Glad to be Catholic

 

[JoshuaNY]

Question:What does the Church say about the Protestant confessions (Concordia)? . .

Since you say Concordia, could you be speaking about the Lutheran Confessions found in the Book of Concord??

 

[Wesley7]

Since you say Concordia, could you be speaking about the Lutheran Confessions found in the Book of Concord??

Yes, the Book of Concord. Like the Augsburg Confessions . . .

 

[Cat]

I can’t find anything in the Catechism that specifically mentions the various Confessions of the various Protestant denominations, other than Paragraph 274.

But Paragraph 819 says, “Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: the written Word of God, the life of grace, faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements. Christ’s Spirit uses these Churches (yes, it’s a large-case “C”, so the Catechism gives more respect to non-Catholic communities than many of us do!) and ecclesial communities as a means of salvation.”

The phrase “visible elements” in the above paragraph is footnoted with a reference to Paragraph 274, which talks about the Creed.

I think it is fair to extrapolate that since many of the churches and ecclesial bodies cited above are “creedal” churches, or churches that use a “Confession” as part of their teaching material, that the Church respects the Confessions as part of those churches.

Yes, there are errors in the various Confessions. The Belgiac Confession says that the Deutero-Canonical books of the Bible are apocryphal and not part of the canon of Scripture. The Heidelberg Catechism condemns various aspects of Catholicism. And many Statements of Faith of the evangelicals tout the false doctrine of sola Scriptura.

But as the Catechism of the Catholic Church says, “many elements of sanctification and truth” are found. Not ALL elements, but “many.”

 

[JonNC]

Yes, the Book of Concord. Like the Augsburg Confessions . . .

The Catholic response to the Augsburg Confession, called the Confutation, can be found here:
bookofconcord.org/augsburgconfession.php

The website is set up where one can read an article of the Augsburg Confession, and at the bottom of each find a link to the Confutation’s reply, and also the Apology of the Augsbrg Confession.

I hope that helps.

Jon

 

[Wesley7]

The Catholic response to the Augsburg Confession, called the Confutation, can be found here:
bookofconcord.org/augsburgconfession.php

The website is set up where one can read an article of the Augsburg Confession, and at the bottom of each find a link to the Confutation’s reply, and also the Apology of the Augsbrg Confession.

I hope that helps.

Jon

Thank you! . .