Catholics & Protestants see themselves more similar than different – except in UK
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22wonderY
Odd. I'd thought that the Anglican/Episcopal church is closest in theology to Catholic.
However, I'm listening to God's Secretaries at the moment, and learning all sorts of theological arguments from the 16th and 17th century.
However, I'm listening to God's Secretaries at the moment, and learning all sorts of theological arguments from the 16th and 17th century.
3John5918
>2 2wonderY:
Theologically I think they are closer, but in UK there is the political and historical complication of the established church, of the mutual persecution that both sides did to each other a few centuries ago, of the relatively recent discrimination against Catholics, the fact that the monarch and prime minister cannot be Catholic, of the strong Irish influence on British Catholicism, the Northern Ireland Troubles, and so on. It's more of a cultural difference or identity issue, perhaps, than a theological one.
And of course Anglicans are not the only Protestants that we come across (indeed many Anglicans do not accept the label Protestant). We have Methodists, free churches, the Scottish Presbyterians, Welsh chapel, etc.
Theologically I think they are closer, but in UK there is the political and historical complication of the established church, of the mutual persecution that both sides did to each other a few centuries ago, of the relatively recent discrimination against Catholics, the fact that the monarch and prime minister cannot be Catholic, of the strong Irish influence on British Catholicism, the Northern Ireland Troubles, and so on. It's more of a cultural difference or identity issue, perhaps, than a theological one.
And of course Anglicans are not the only Protestants that we come across (indeed many Anglicans do not accept the label Protestant). We have Methodists, free churches, the Scottish Presbyterians, Welsh chapel, etc.
4Guanhumara
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5PossMan
Like >3 John5918:: I feel that political and historical factors have a major part to play rather than theology. Elizabeth I was excommunicated and the then Pope relieved her subjects of any obedience to her - making all Roman Catholics in the country traitors. Then there was the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up James I in Parliament. And the so-called "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 when James II lost his throne to William of Orange and James's treacherous unfilial daughter Mary. Various schemes to put the RC Stuarts back on the throne (Culloden was 1745) kept the pot bubbling and Roma Catholics continued to be penalised in many ways. I think it was only in the early 1800s that non-Anglicans were able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. And in the small Lancashire cotton town where I was brought up (in the Methodist heartlands) there was still a good deal of anti-RC feeling beneath the surface in the 1950s/1960s.
