What Theological Contributions Have Protestants Made?

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Padrej said:
I find it interesting you would label me as such when every Anglican church that I ever served has been middle of the road to high, and I never have had much use for the morning and evening prayer services. Is it because I respect Peter Toon that you make this comment? You may be surprised that I prefer benediction of the Blessed sacrament to an evening prayer service. My private altar has a monstrance on it and I pray the rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet. I also am a devotee of Padre Pio and have a couple of his relics. How does this make me a “low church Anglican”???
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Question? What is a high or a low or middle of the road Anglican Church?
 
tweetymom said:
Question? What is a high or a low or middle of the road Anglican Church?
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Basically “high” means “more Catholic” and “low” means “more Protestant.” Although the terms are often used primarily about style of worship, and in fact many high-church Anglicans worship in ways that are more traditionally Catholic (lots of incense, kneeling at the altar rail, etc.) than the practices of many parishes in communion with Rome.

The practices Padrej mentioned are characteristic of quite extreme “high-church” or “Anglo-Catholic” Anglicanism. Hence my obvious error in describing him as “low church.” A true low-church Anglicanism would see a monstrance and run screaming “idolatry.” (Well, Anglicans generally don’t scream.)

Edwin
 
AJTheMan said:
Here are a few Theological contributions over the centuries:

Sola Fide - Salvation by faith alone, not by good works or deeds
Sola Scriptura - The Bible is the only doctrinal authority in Christianity
Solus Christus - Jesus is the only mediator between god and man
Decision Theology - Man must make a conscious decision of accepting Jesus as their personal lord and savior.
Unconditional Election - Some people were saved by God’s grace even before the world was created

These are really only a few. Quite a few theological contributions have come from Protestants.
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Interesting.
These are not theological contribututions; this is what our Bible says. The Bible is the inspired Word of God.
 
ASojourner said:
Interesting.
These are not theological contribututions; this is what our Bible says.
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By “our Bible” you mean “the Bible seen through specific theological lenses.” Not everyone sees these doctrines in the Bible. You see them there because of theological contributions (or more negatively, innovations) by Protestants.

Edwin
 
Contarini said:
Basically “high” means “more Catholic” and “low” means “more Protestant.” Although the terms are often used primarily about style of worship, and in fact many high-church Anglicans worship in ways that are more traditionally Catholic (lots of incense, kneeling at the altar rail, etc.) than the practices of many parishes in communion with Rome.

The practices Padrej mentioned are characteristic of quite extreme “high-church” or “Anglo-Catholic” Anglicanism. Hence my obvious error in describing him as “low church.” A true low-church Anglicanism would see a monstrance and run screaming “idolatry.” (Well, Anglicans generally don’t scream.)

Edwin
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Ok thanks. I really don’t get it. Who gave them the name, high or low. Kinda sounds sounds a bit disrespectable to me:shrug:
 
tweetymom said:
Ok thanks. I really don’t get it. Who gave them the name, high or low. Kinda sounds sounds a bit disrespectable to me:shrug:
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No, it refers to a certain concept of the liturgy. Nothing disrespectful. (Coming, Dear, right away).

GKC
 
GKC said:
No, it refers to a certain concept of the liturgy. Nothing disrespectful. (Coming, Dear, right away).

GKC
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Oh ok thanks for the info. Don’t mean to be disrespectable. God Bless you and your family.👍
 
tweetymom said:
Ok thanks. I really don’t get it. Who gave them the name, high or low. Kinda sounds sounds a bit disrespectable to me:shrug:
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Well some people use “smells and bells” for high church. How does that sound to you?
 
tweetymom said:
Ok thanks. I really don’t get it. Who gave them the name, high or low. Kinda sounds sounds a bit disrespectable to me:shrug:
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The terms come from 17th-century English ecclesiastical politics. I think that originally it had to do with one’s view of the Church. “High Church” Anglicans were those who emphasized the authority of the Church, believed in apostolic succession, persecuted dissenters, etc. Hence they were said to have a “high” view of the institutional Church’s mission and authority.

Edwin
 
tweetymom said:
Smells and bells?
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Smells are incense. Bells are, well, bells, particularly the “Sanctus bell” rung during the Eucharistic Prayer by the more “high church” Anglicans. (My parish has a Sanctus bell. As my priest likes to say, folks in my parish like to think of themselves as Anglo-Catholics, but don’t have much understanding of what is involved, and we’re really more middle-of-the-road.)

Edwin
 
Contarini said:
The terms come from 17th-century English ecclesiastical politics. I think that originally it had to do with one’s view of the Church. “High Church” Anglicans were those who emphasized the authority of the Church, believed in apostolic succession, persecuted dissenters, etc. Hence they were said to have a “high” view of the institutional Church’s mission and authority.

Edwin
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Oh ok i see. Thanks for explaining it for me. Just still seems a bit disrespectful. But that is just me.
 
Contarini said:
Smells are incense. Bells are, well, bells, particularly the “Sanctus bell” rung during the Eucharistic Prayer by the more “high church” Anglicans. (My parish has a Sanctus bell. As my priest likes to say, folks in my parish like to think of themselves as Anglo-Catholics, but don’t have much understanding of what is involved, and we’re really more middle-of-the-road.)

Edwin
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Thanks again. At our parish we donot use bells anymore, no incense except at Easter.
 
tweetymom said:
Thanks again. At our parish we donot use bells anymore, no incense except at Easter.
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Tweetymom, then your parish is “low”. 😃 Seriously I don’t like the smell of incense. I do remember though when I was younger in my RC parish we had the early morning low Mass and the high Mass was the one where the entire Mass was sung. 🤷
 
tweetymom said:
Oh ok i see. Thanks for explaining it for me. Just still seems a bit disrespectful. But that is just me.
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If you think it’s disrespectful, you should read *Gulliver’s Travels, *Book 1, where the whole thing is caricatured as a conflict between the Lilliputians who wear high heels and those who wear low heels:
Jonathan Swift:
his Majesty’s Imperial Heels are lower at least by a Drurr than any of his Court; (Drurr is a Measure about the fourteenth Part of an Inch). . . .We apprehend his Imperial Highness, the Heir to the Crown, to have some Tendency towards the High-Heels; at least we can plainly discover one of his Heels higher than the other, which gives him a Hobble in his Gait.
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Swift also describes the Catholic-Protestant conflict as a dispute between those who open their eggs at the big end and those who open them at the small end. (If you haven’t eaten soft-boiled eggs in the English manner, this may not make sense.)

Edwin
 
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