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After all, the very name ‘Protestantism’ is meant to denote a reform movement of protest within the Church Catholic. When Protestantism becomes an end in itself ... it becomes anathema. If we no longer have broken hearts at the church’s division, then we cannot help but unfaithfully celebrate Reformation Sunday.
- Stanley Hauerwas
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ,
God's only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended into hell.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
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Comment by Edward Eagle on November 24, 2011 at 12:33am -
I beg to differ.
"Protestant" does not mean a reform movement of protest within the Catholic Church
The word "Protestant" is a curious inversion of the meaning of the word "protest" since Elizabethan days.
"Protestant" to Englishmen of the the Elizabethan era meant to witness, to avowal
The contemporary Church of Germany uses the term in its original meaning.
A testifying Church. A witnessing Church.
In Germany in 1529 the protestant term referred to the appeal of the Church against "The states" rights and previously agreed general Church council.
In Elizabethan England, the Protestant Church was the Church that which bore witness and made its avowal to evangelical Christianity.
Puritans, Presbyterians and other critics of the confession were not recognised in England as themselves "Protestant" until after 1650.
Only after the word "protest" changed its emphasis from the positive to the negative did the term "Protestant" come to mean dissent from Romanism
"Protestants" are and were witnessing the good news of healing in Christ's Kingdom
In America and on the European continent, the terms Evangelicals and Reformists are used.
This especially applies to the Calvanist and Lutheran wings of the Reformation
So the term "protestant" does not represent everything non-Roman or non-Eatern Orthodox, but Evangelical Protestantism.
The Protestantism born of and living by a witness to the full and revivified Gospel.
Regards,
Edward Eagle
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