JDG wrote:
>
> At 05:56 PM 8/8/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
> >> In the meantime, it is a bit grating for an office-holder of another
> >> Church, a Church whose raison d'etre is opposition to Catholicism,
> >
> >no, the raison d'etre is following Jesus, the Christ, the son of the
> >living God.
>
> But following it in a way that is not consistent with the way the Catholic
> Church is following it.
>
> Look, I am explicitly using Catholic with a capitol "C", not a lowercase
> "c." After all, isn't it a basic truism of all Christians that they
> believe that they are members of the true, universal, catholic Church?
It's in the Nicene creed. ("Holy, catholic and apostolic church" is
what is said in the Episcopal church in the US. I suppose I could go
upstairs and see what it is they say in New Zealand; I was given a New
Zealand prayerbook as a present....)
Are there some groups of Christians that don't adhere to the Nicene
creed? If so, what is their belief on this matter?
(Was the Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox split over the Nicene creed?
Was there some other split over the Nicene creed? What were the points
of contention?)
Julia
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