Protestantism And The Bible

[theculturewarrior]

If you ever feel compelled to choose between Orthodoxy and Catholicism, talk to me. I will tell you why I am Catholic.

[desertwoman]

Deal.

[N/A Gone]

no answer from budge on the emergent movement?

[Budge]

Ive studied the Emergent movement, I dont know what youre talking about REV, they are BIG INTO "ORTHODOXY", they just believe they can jazz things up for the young people, in fact one of the biggest things with the Emergents is returning to what they call "ancient" ways. In fact while Emergents push sacramentalism as much as possible. Sure some of them are aging hippies and love their labryinths and junk...but they speak of returning to the "early" {they are wrong in thinking its the Catholic} church.

[N/A Gone]

thats pretty much not true at all.

There is a recent flux of protestantism that is trying to return to the earlier worship styles and etc, but to call that sacramental is very wrong. The majority of emergent church people I know are very "anti-high church" at their core they are relativistic and post-modern. Not orthodox

[desertwoman]

Like Rev said. It's mainly post modern and embraces relativity. Even though I don't like wiki that much, here is an article describing what it is. I"ll muster up some scholary articles as well.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_Church"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_Church[/url]


"The emerging church movement is a controversial[1], 21st century Christian movement whose participants seek to engage postmodern people, especially the unchurched. To accomplish this, "emerging Christians" or "emergents" embrace a missional aproach to Christianity in which they reshape belief, standards, and methods to fit a postmodern mold while advocating efforts to effect tangible, temporal changes that enhance the lives of postmoderns."

"[b]Critics of the movement are often conservative evangelical theologians and pastors who disagree with the movement's embrace of postmodernism, believing such a worldview leads emergents to unorthodox theology, relativism, antinomianism, universalism, and syncretism[/b]. These critics frequently associate emergent theology with the liberal theology that has historically been at odds with Christian fundamentalism and Evangelicalism."

[RezaMikhaeil]

[quote name='Budge' post='1217900' date='Mar 23 2007, 04:48 PM']Ive studied the Emergent movement, I dont know what youre talking about REV, they are BIG INTO "ORTHODOXY"[/quote] You just havn't studied orthodoxy right?

[Budge]

That term is defined differently by so many people, its like conservative and liberal.

[N/A Gone]

no, emergent church is not...I have seen you use it as a blanket statement when you dont like a protestant (ala moltmann, and even volf I think) but dont assume it is used differently because YOU use it wrong.

[NewReformation]

[quote name='theculturewarrior' post='1215781' date='Mar 19 2007, 11:16 AM']Protestants for the most part view the Bible as the only authority in matters of doctrine. My question is, why do so many protestants believe radically different things about Christ and what is true in matters of faith, if the Bible is the only authority for the Church that Christ prayed be one. How can one protestant read one thing in the Bible, and another read the same thing but find it means something else, and state that both are true because they come from the Bible?[/quote]
Probably for the same reason that so many "Church Fathers" and Catholic Theologians can come to different interpretations.

[N/A Gone]

Church fathers are not infallable, Councils are.

Different interpretations? Care to share friend?

btw..baptists are still protestant..