Evangelical Catholic

some Native American strands; it shows similarities to Brazilian Umbanda and has been receiving a degree of official support. The Roman Catholic Church estimates that 60 percent of the population is Catholic,[2] but only 5% of that 60% attends mass regularly,[3] while independent sources estimate that as few 1.5% of the population does so.[4] Membership in Evangelical Protestant churches is estimated to be 5 percent and includes Baptists, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, Presbyterians,…

controversy is active in some ways. The one I see the most active is within the Catholic and Protestant view of communion. I have a lot of Catholic friends and the view of the Lord’s Supper is a stark difference. I have attended mass with friends in the past, and the reverence that is paid for the Eucharist is much different than what Protestants do for Lord’s supper. One big difference is it is not open communion and only Roman Catholics can take the elements is different. I was raised Missouri…

last section of chapter discusses Edinburgh and Lausanne’s’ relationship to convergence. Chapter five focuses on the convergence beyond the Lausanne movement. The chapter starts of discussing the theological convergence’s impact “on the broader evangelical and ecumenical world focusing on theological assumptions (162)” and “missiological methods that emerged from the Lausanne movement” (Pruitt 167). Pruitt discusses the International Mission Board (IMB) and its relationship with Lausanne, as…

produced noticeable differences. Many of the Judeo-Christian freedoms enjoyed by people today come from the Reformation. Freedom of religion came solely from the Protestant side of the Christian church. In addition, freedom of speech comes from the evangelicals. The Protestants have shaped tolerance in the west to what it is today. The rest of the world, in contrast, was rife with intolerance. Intolerance such as the Muslims suppression of the Hindus is India and other south Asian areas. Today,…

hovering over their heads. Yet, to Catholic Christians, saints have played a very active and very important role in the piety of a believer. However, this sentiment is not held by all Christians.…

has been led by the World Council of Churches since 1948. This movement created full communion among the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Presbyterian Church, United Church of Christ, and the Reformed Church in America. Even before Vatican II made ecumenism a pivotal theme Father Yves Congar highlighted the ecumenical issue that divided Christianity. In 1995 John Paul II reaffirmed the catholic commitment to Christian ecumenism with the encyclical of On Commitment to Ecumenism and again when…

Introduction Guatemala has become the leading place for conducting researches on religions in Latin America. The predominant religions in Guatemala are Catholicism, Christianity and Mayan spirituality. However, during the colonial era, Catholicism was the main religion. There has been a tremendous growth in the Protestants community. According to the The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, “Pentecostals represent the most rapidly growing sector of Latin American Protestantism”. The other…

Reformation was described as a widespread theological revolt in Europe, against the abuses and totalitarian control of the Roman Catholic Church. There were three reformers who were identified in support of the cause. Martin Luther in Germany, Ulrich Zwingli in Switzerland, and John Calvin in France. These men stood by their beliefs and protested various unbiblical practices of the Catholic Church. The men were trying to get the people to return to sound biblical doctrine. The Protestant…

The Catholic religion if a very widely accepted and practiced religion throughout the world. For my site visit I went to St. Mary Catholic Church which is located at 414 Madison St, Decatur, IN 46733. Their phone number is (260) 724-9159 and the church’s mission statement is to spread the gospel message, administer sacraments and reach out with charity and justice to people in need. The first thing I realized when I walked into St. May’s Catholic Church was how beautiful it was. It had these…

autonomy and the rules that we either self impose or have imposed on us. While the I fully believe in the philosophy, I believe there is a fine line between lack of rules and regulation and chaos. From my limited exposure my consulting client, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Milwaukee (ELCA), is suffering from some of the chaos of not enough oversight and systematic guidelines. Edward Schein, an organizational development expert who taught at MIT, defined an organization’s culture as its…