In One Word, What Ultimately Divides Evangelicals and Catholics?

sacramentality

Thoughts?

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9 Responses to “In One Word, What Ultimately Divides Evangelicals and Catholics?”

  1. Pontificator Says:
    May 1, 2006 at 9:48 pm

    I agree. :-)

  2. Danny Garland Jr. Says:
    May 1, 2006 at 10:39 pm

    Yeah, that about says it!

  3. Chad Toney Says:
    May 2, 2006 at 12:31 am

    let’s see how small we can get the word and get the same point across:

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  4. Jason Says:
    May 2, 2006 at 1:05 am

    I’ll cut out the middle man:

    Incarnation.

  5. LutherPunk Says:
    May 2, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    I guess that depends on how you define Evangelicals…do you mean it in the modern sociological sense of non-Creedal Protestants or do you mean it also in a way that blanketly refers to non-Roman Catholics?

  6. David B. Says:
    May 2, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    Robb,
    I used “evangelicals” because I don’t think sacramentality divides Catholics from some Protestants, including Lutherans, Anglicans, and to some degree Methodists and Presbyterians. So yes, I basically mean the non-creedal Protestants.

  7. Love4theWord Says:
    May 4, 2006 at 12:33 am

    I would have said ‘Saints’ or ‘Mary’.

    Seraphim

  8. Robin L. in TX Says:
    May 6, 2006 at 11:47 am

    Grace, or perhaps God Himself. It seems to me that denying that He works through His created matter should also deem His working through us impossible too.

    If His grace doesn’t transform us on a spiritual level, it is easy to see how quickly it becomes difficult to see His spark in humanity, leading us toward abortion and euthanasia, even hooking up–all denials of God’s divine spark within man…

    Followed some links here and was blessed by the discussion.

  9. Anonymous Says:
    May 24, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    David,

    For whatever its worth, the one word should be nominalism, not “sacramentalism”. The nominalist presuppositions held uniformly by Protestants, while explaining their lack of a genuine sacramentality also explains much more as well. I can think of no difference between Catholicism and Protestantism which cannot be understood in terms of the nominalist thought forms which form the basis of how Protestants think aout things. If there is to be any meaningful reproachment, a grasp of this single point will be critical.

    John Lowell

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