https://anglicanjournal.com/churches-together-seeking-common-ground/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:08:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/churches-together-seeking-common-ground/#comment-3989 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:22:33 +0000 http://anglicanjournal.com/?p=150811#comment-3989 I appreciated reading this succinct review. It is interesting that Roman Catholics have produced a book of essays to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther.
One comment: I thought it was Secularism which is the major force pushing the Churches together. I believe it was 1910, in Edinburgh, when a large conference was organized, which marked the beginning of the ecumenical movement. 1910 is before World War 1. By Secularism, I mean the Enlightenment, the rise of Science, and the many humanistic philosophies which regard the concept of God as obsolete and the idea of religion as something belonging to the Medieval Age.. So, in modern society, all Christian Churches are marginalized. So, I think we need one another. We all bear the name of Christ, or of being Christian.
It was not through reading essays that I overcome my prejudices about Catholics. It was meeting Catholic persons who were friendly and intelligent. By meeting real Christian persons from other denominations, and also by reading church history,, I became more ecumenically minded.

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