tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post7805871889505768011..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Sobran and Pope Benedictelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-62723105287493367352007-08-01T10:36:00.000-04:002007-08-01T10:36:00.000-04:00Odd. Sobran should know better.Odd. Sobran should know better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-585632085534160922007-08-01T10:32:00.000-04:002007-08-01T10:32:00.000-04:00Good point. I was wondering about that myself....Good point. I was wondering about that myself....elena maria vidalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-18326125865045158312007-08-01T10:09:00.000-04:002007-08-01T10:09:00.000-04:00Incredibly, one Protestant editor has referred to ...<I>Incredibly, one Protestant editor has referred to Catholicism as a “denomination,” rather like Mormonism.</I><BR/><BR/>That should be 'rather like the United Methodist Church' or another denomination that doesn't claim to be the one true church. <BR/><BR/>Mormonism is not only a non-Christian religion* but IIRC Mormons believe they have the one true faith (they believe they are the true Christians; we're 'gentiles') so they'd be offended at being called a 'denomination' too.<BR/><BR/>To be fair to that editor, that may well be how his church sees the Church of Rome. Mainline Protestants may be indifferentists but at least they acknowledge Rome as Christian!<BR/><BR/>Protestant churches that claim to be the one true church:<BR/><BR/>- some 'confessional Lutherans'<BR/>- some Baptists (who claim a kind of succession even though they don't have bishops)<BR/>- the Churches of Christ (part of the 'Restoration'-of-the-true-church movement in the 1800s that also begat Mormonism)<BR/><BR/>*That grew out of 19th-century Protestantism and uses a lot of Christian language, like the name 'Jesus Christ' in its formal name, which intentionally confuses a lot of people. When I was a kid I didn't know any Mormons (and still don't) and thought they were just another (conservative) Protestant denomination too.Ecgberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354592772973677609noreply@blogger.com