Re: Re: Back in the Saddle

From: Michael Marinacci <mikal9000_at_comcast.net_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:23:26 -0700

Not exactly. "Protestant" churches are all those sects who can trace their
origins and *raisons d'etre* to Martin Luther and/or John Calvin. The
Anglican Communion split from Rome for very different reasons, at a
different time.

In some ways, Anglicanism is almost like the Orthodoxy of English-speaking
peoples, since it reflected a separation of an Apostolic, Catholic communion
from Rome, rather than an attempt to establish a radically different form of
Christian theology and organizational structure. An even better comparison
would be to their sister churches on the Continent -- the European Old
Catholics -- who left Rome after Vatican I's doctrinal innovations, yet are
still considered "Catholic" albeit non-Roman.

As for the Melkites: the RCC includes several "Eastern Rite" jurisdictions
numbering many millions of people. They're essentially Orthodox who answer
to the Patriarch of Rome. (Compare these to Rome's "Anglican Usage"
parishes or the Orthodox "Western Rite" groups, which are composed largely
of ex-Anglicans still getting used to life on the far side of the Bosporus
or the Tiber.)




Episcopalians are Protestants.

And there's the unfortunate issue of the origins of Anglicanism. After
all, a girl could really lose her head over a hunky monarch, once upon
a time.

--Q.M.

On Apr 12, 2006, at 5:20 PM, Elena Dent wrote:

> Aramaic is the liturgical language of the Melkites. How may there
> are, I
> haven't a clue. They're called 'Greek Rite' by the Roman Catholic
> church
> and were, at one time, the only 'church' I'd ever heard of whose
> rites were
> completely accepted by the Catholic Church (notorious for being
> unwilling to
> accept anyone, even Episcopalians)
>
> Elena
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, Joy McCann
> <jmmccann_at_...> wrote:
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> > BTW, can't ANYONE tell me what it was like to have Hebrew
> essentially
> > resurrected as a language after it was nearly dead, used only in
> > temples/synogogues (DO, pls. fix spelling there; thanks). I mean,
> > hadn't Hebrew fallen entirely into rare use--similar to the
> situation
> > with Latin before Vatican II? How do we know how close the
> > pronunciations are now to what they were a few thousand years ago?
> >
> > --J
>
> The fact that Hebrew was used for religious purposes means that it was
> never dead. And being so well maintained, the language should be close
> to how it sounded two thousand years ago. But bear in mind, at that
> early time Hebrew was not the dominant Semetic language of the Middle
> East. (Nor was Arabic, for that matter.) Classical Aramaic was the
> dominant one. Interesting how this language has all but disappeared!
> They say it exists in a few villages in Syria.
>
> An interesting language that has truly died off is Ancient Egyptian.
> We have an idea how it sounded, since we have figured out the
> consonants and consonantal clusters. But the vowels are unknown. So
> our best efforts to reproduce it would have to be off.
>
>
> John
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