Word: catholicization
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Perhaps the habit of violence can be changed after all. With the standoff in Portadown ready to turn into a massive weekend eruption, Protestant would-be marchers and the Catholic residents they would march past were talking Friday -- through intermediaries -- about a compromise. "Northern Ireland has run...
The problem: Where, between marching and not marching, is there any room for compromise? "If I knew that, I'd be the Northern Ireland Secretary," says Hillenbrand. "It's a conflict of two rights: The right to march and the right to have peace and quiet." The key to any...
They were wrong, but their cause was not totally lost. Last week--457 years, several disastrous religious wars and dozens of denominational splits later--Edward Cardinal Cassidy announced Vatican approval, with some caveats, of a Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, toward which Catholic and Lutheran theologians have been...
Luther's doctrine of justification by grace was his solution to two problems. One was personal: the era's Catholic practice presented divine forgiveness and salvation as earned, a function of one's merit. Like many people, Luther was periodically paralyzed by fear that his merit might fall short. He...
...excommunication by a furious church, much of whose power derived from "works"; and the formalization of additional grievances by Catholic and Protestant sides into anathemas, or catalogs of heresies. In the long run differences over justification can be seen as shaping the subsequent divided character of Western Christianity: Catholicism's continuing emphases on hierarchy, communalism and good works, and Protestantism's intense individualism...