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Why "Protestant and Related Churches"?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:01:33 -0600

When I was growing up in Texas, you were either Protestant or Catholic. Life is more complicated, though. In The Gospel in Christian Traditions, I deal with a wide range of churches, including a chapter on “Protestant and Related Churches.” Why the awkward expression?

For one thing, many Anglicans don’t like to be classified as “Protestants” — they point out that the Church of England existed long before the Reformation. But then again, that’s also true of the Waldensian Church and of the Moravian Church, insofar as the latter grew from the pre-Reformation Unitas Fratrum in Bohemia. One might even include the ancient Mar Thomas of Church of India, which is a very ancient Christian community significantly influenced by Anglicanism.

So for the third chapter of The Gospel in Christian Traditions, I decided to go with this awkward construction, “Protestant and Related Churches,” even including Methodist churches, which might also have gone into the category of “Evaneglical Christian Communities” in chapter four.

Blessings to all in the New (civil) Year,

/ted

New Book: The Gospel in Christian Traditions

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:27:00 -0600

Oxford University Press, New York, has just released my book on The Gospel in Christian Traditions. The OUP web page for the book is:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/Theology/?view=usa&ci=9780195370638

On amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Gospel-Christian-Traditions-Ted-Campbell/dp/0195370627/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229178374&sr=1-1

The book carries the publication date of 2009, but it has been available since November 2008.

/ted

my heartcoreMethodist web site

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:38:50 -0500

my heartcoreMethodist web site: This is my blog about renewal in Methodist churches.

my Christian Mysteries web site

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:34:21 -0500

my Christian Mysteries web site: This is the web site for my little book on Christian Mysteries.