Realistic ideas

  • Thread starter Thread starter luisvera
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
my mom was UMC and some of my cousins still are so pm me with questions if you want.
 
This is sort of offtopic, but i also plan to put her on a catholic school, bear in mind again, this in New York, Queens, does anyone have any idea which one could it be?
 
There is a Methodist-to-Catholic lady here at CAF, but I don’t remember her handle. Maybe you could ask to interview her.
 
I went to a Baptist university for undergrad. My boyfriend was Baptist; his roommates were Baptist; there were plenty of people there who were happy to tell me how wrong I was for being Catholic. 🙂 There were a few times when I almost missed lunch because we were debating about whether the Catholic view of Purgatory or Mary or whatever made sense.

However, the Baptists aren’t really big on infant baptism. But they can baptize older children who show a more mature grasp of what’s going on. So, for example—
“As a convictional Baptist, it is hard for me to admit this, but when we baptize children too young to grasp the gospel and, as a result, whose hearts haven’t been affected by it, it is more troubling than a sprinkling of an infant,” Allen said.

“Why is this? Because when Presbyterians, for example, sprinkle infants, they anticipate the child will one day be converted. When we baptize young children we are testifying they have been converted.”

Allen said parents and churches should encourage children to follow Christ at every age, including the early years. “However, if we are not careful we can find ourselves routinely baptizing young children before they understand the gospel — or have been affected by it.”

“The point is not that a child cannot be converted,” he said. “The point is that we should do our best to make sure conversion has happened in our children before baptizing them.”
Click to expand...
So, we have a similar question come up in Catholicism. When do we administer the Sacrament of the Eucharist? Since the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), we want the kids to have reached the age of reason. So eventually, kids were only able to take their First Reconciliation and First Communion around the ages of 10-12, and in some places, you had to wait until you were 14. But in 1910, Pius X bumped it back down to “the age of discretion”, where you have some degree of reason, even if your ability to reason isn’t fully developed-- so now, you have 7-8 year olds taking the Sacraments-- because they can at least grasp the concept of “This is my Body” and can discern the difference between “Eucharistic bread” and “ordinary, material bread”, as he explained in Quam Singulari. However— before the 13th c-- and still present in the Greek and Oriental churches-- you have infants who receive Baptism, Eucharist, and Confirmation all at the same time.

So, for a lot of Protestant churches who don’t have things like Confirmation, if you view Baptism as taking the place of Confirmation-- something that requires a bit of discernment/understanding/maturity-- then their view makes sense. And so if your character gets baptized at age 10, or age 12, or 14, or whatever, it would make sense for someone with a Baptist background (or from some other denomination that doesn’t practice infant baptism), but your 15 or 16 yo character would till be baptized before the events of your book begin.
 
You could make her a Congregationalist. Today, most Congregationalists are part of the United Church of Christ.

Congregationalists are like Baptists in that each congregation is self-governing and they are low church. However, unlike Baptists, they do practice infant baptism.
 
Last edited:
It could work, but the ship as sailed, i’ve decided to make her a methodist since well, they spoke first, are the most common protestants in NY and already talked with an ex methodist convert to catholicism, so, thanks anyhow
 
Lol that’s not a protestant denomination (although judging by how far some are going, it may just as well be soon!)
 
Well, you may turn off some Protestant readers if it is a Protestant vs Catholic story. You may have a larger scope of readers…and the impact from never being exposed to any Christianity to Catholic would be dramatic.
 
I’m not even sure they’re necessarily Christian. Or am I thinking of something else?
 
You’re right they’re not Christian. Then how about a non denominational Christian.
 
Nah it’s not a catholic vs protestant story, (it’s a superhero story, i know, i’m a nerd) but religion is a strong subtext, mostly cause the main character (who is this girl’s father) is Venezuelan born and with irish ancestry, do your guess, i do had planned to expand of the girl’s maternal family dislike for his father is having them be somewhat anticatholic
 
I considered them! They would surely do, but a methodist seems more reality like in terms of it being in NY (They’re the biggest protestant denomination in NY) however, i did wanted some of her previous worldview to be somewhat libeal as i said above, so non denominational would help to that as they don’t have a profession/confession/creed as such, but i’ve talked to a few former methodist and feel like i have more resources to despict that better)
 
Make her a member of the Schwenkfelder Church. That way you can have a dramatic Baptism scene. Maybe when the movie comes out, you can have Al Pacino play the Archbishop, his carrier shrouded in scandal, who Baptizes her and James Caan play her grandfather, the overbearing and ruthless family patriarch hellbent on letting nothing destroy his legacy.
 
Last edited:
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top