A few weeks ago I had to ask for an explanation of someone’s post, which mentioned CoE, but the thread wasn’t related to the Church of the East.
He said “a merging of the forces of antichrist”, which to me sounds like saying (incorrectly) that some Lutherans apply “antichrist” to the Orthodox as well as Catholics.
lol stay with usA few weeks ago I had to ask for an explanation of someone’s post, which mentioned CoE, but the thread wasn’t related to the Church of the East.
Just now I had the opposite problem (but more fleetingly): for a second I thought you were talking about the Church of England.
Hmm, I would’ve thought the fact that I wrote “Persian/East Syrian Church” earlier in the same sentence would’ve prevented that kind of confusion. Oops. Sorry. I would just as soon use “Nestorian” or “ACoE”, but they make people upset (and for ACoE, I understand, as “Assyrian” in the modern day has some very specific political/nationalist connotations that don’t really hold for all the people who historically were in that Church, i.e., I’ve never met a Syro-Malabar person who talked longingly about “Beth Nahrain” as the Assyrians do).A few weeks ago I had to ask for an explanation of someone’s post, which mentioned CoE, but the thread wasn’t related to the Church of the East.
Just now I had the opposite problem (but more fleetingly): for a second I thought you were talking about the Church of England.
).Since I was mostly raised in the LDS church, I’m not sure what you even mean by full communion, but I do wish that you would recognize more of each others’ saints. Case in point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiune_SugiharaThis topic came up on another thread. It is not really on the topic of the thread so I wanted to create a thread for it, because it is really interesting!
Great man but not officially canonized
If it makes you feel better, it can be quite difficult even for us to know what we mean by full communion.
LolIf it makes you feel better, it can be quite difficult even for us to know what we mean by full communion.
Maybe. I read it the other way. Either way, you are right, for the reasons I mentioned. I’ve never heard the term applied to Orthodoxy.
What are your views of the Orthodox Church? I never really hear non Catholics speak about the Orthodox Church. Usually Catholics are in the line of fire.
I like your post; I have heard non Catholics say if only the EO and the RCC were unified
Aha, we finally got it out of him his name…Dustin. LOL
Sure! If they ask me the Lutheran hymns can be added in…:tiphat:Oh, I almost forgot number three! Could we keep our Lutheran hymns and liturgies?Nothing beats the LSB’s Order of Matins when the pastor can hold a tune!
Good question.
(I’m assuming that when you say “non Catholics” you mean protestants.) I think we’ve had some good conversations on that topic, but I don’t know if I could find them.Yeah Protestants. I always heard people bad mouthing Catholics growing up, but never once heard anyone say anything about the Orthodox Church. I guess many just do not think about them much?Good question.
Individuals can reject the Holy Spirit at work.
I would think that for most low church Evangelical types and those heavily influenced by such thinking, they probably consider the Orthodox (if they consider/know about their existence at all) to be funny Roman Catholics, and hence would probably think that they are killing two birds with one stone by condemning Roman Catholics. Some of us do have a Pope, after all, and that’s generally enough (well, plus the doctrines we do actually share with the Romans) to get us placed into the same category, despite our vastly different approaches to theology, ecclesiology, and basically everything else.Yeah Protestants. I always heard people bad mouthing Catholics growing up, but never once heard anyone say anything about the Orthodox Church. I guess many just do not think about them much?
I believe it is simply a lack of understanding on their part on Orthodoxy. Many just do not think about it.I would think that for most low church Evangelical types and those heavily influenced by such thinking, they probably consider the Orthodox (if they consider/know about their existence at all) to be funny Roman Catholics, and hence would probably think that they are killing two birds with one stone by condemning Roman Catholics. Some of us do have a Pope, after all, and that’s generally enough (well, plus the doctrines we do actually share with the Romans) to get us placed into the same category, despite our vastly different approaches to theology, ecclesiology, and basically everything else.