Re: sacraments as means of grace (was Re: [asa] Pregnancy & Communion)

Quoting Murray Hogg <muzhogg@netspace.net.au>:

> Hi Dave,
>
> Hmm... seems there's a darker side to Zwingli's story I'm not familiar with.
> I'll have to have a look into that. I'd always thought Luther was the bane of
> the Anabaptists - but if the Anabaptists themselves don't see it that way...
>

It wouldn't be very "anabaptist" of us to still be nursing grudges over this.
Especially since the Lutherans' recent official apology. At the conference
level everybody's got forgiveness, warm fuzzies & group hugs these days. At the
younger parishoner level, you might get a blank stare and a confused response:
"they did what!? "

--Merv
P.S. Most Mennonites, if they still adhere to the peace position, feel more
separation over that from all other Protestants and Catholics alike. Apart from
that issue, though, you might have trouble discerning the difference between us
& Baptists; these days some Mennonite churches even have the flag in front of
the church. (Is that Blaurock, Greble, and Manz I hear spinning in their graves?)

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Received on Fri Nov 7 17:19:35 2008