Changing Churches: An Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran Theological Conversation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802866943)

Sharp controversies -- about biblical authority, the ordination of women, evangelical "worship styles," and the struggle for homosexual "inclusion" -- have rocked the Lutheran church in recent decades. In Changing Churches two men who once communed at the same Lutheran Eucharistic table explain their similar but different decisions to leave the Lutheran faith tradition -- one for Orthodoxy, the other for Roman Catholicism.

Here Mickey L. Mattox and A. G. Roeber address the most difficult questions Protestants face when considering such a conversion, including views on justification, grace, divinization, the church and its authority, women and ministry, papal infallibility, the role of Mary, and homosexuality. They also discuss the long-standing ecumenical division between Rome and the Orthodox patriarchates, acknowledging the difficult issues that still confront those traditions from within and divide them from one another.

Author: Mickey L. Mattox, A. G. Roeber
ISBN-10: 0802866948
ISBN-13: 9780802866943
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2012
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d