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#203903 - 10/29/06 03:30 PM
Re: I Hate Converts...(And I Am One)
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I converted (or reverted?) to the Catholic church this year after three years of non-denomenational Protestantism (a mouthful, I know). So, as a fired up convert, I really appreciate all of your posts! Though, I hardly think I'm a nuisance to cradle Catholics.. :rolleyes: Furthermore I am drawn to the Eastern Traditions, not because I think that the Latin Rite is deficient (not in the LEAST!) but because of what I think might be the result of my being baptized and having spent time in my childhood in the Greek Orthodox Church. I hope to learn more of Eastern Christian traditions here.  Pax vobiscum,
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#203904 - 10/29/06 03:32 PM
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#203906 - 10/30/06 04:59 AM
Re: I Hate Converts...(And I Am One)
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IN the Eastern churches I think a range of thelogical views are visible among both cradlersand newcomers. Perhaps somenewcomers are more zealouson aspects of Eastern discipline; but I have the controversial view that it is a cultural phenomenon, and I don't mean that in ethnic terms exclusively; even converts to pentecostalism try to fit the prevailing cultural stereotype; however, there is in SOME eastern rites an ethic bias, which some converts perhaps compensate for by being ULTRA conservative in praxis. That's just my view, no offence intended; I've evolved it by speaking to converts East whose attraction is theological primarliy, whereas my move East was a response to my Russian ancestry, primarily, which perhaps reflects my perspective.
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#203907 - 10/30/06 11:50 AM
Re: I Hate Converts...(And I Am One)
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Originally posted by speakerforthedead: I converted (or reverted?) to the Catholic church this year after three years of non-denomenational Protestantism (a mouthful, I know). So, as a fired up convert, I really appreciate all of your posts! Though, I hardly think I'm a nuisance to cradle Catholics.. :rolleyes:
Furthermore I am drawn to the Eastern Traditions, not because I think that the Latin Rite is deficient (not in the LEAST!) but because of what I think might be the result of my being baptized and having spent time in my childhood in the Greek Orthodox Church.
I hope to learn more of Eastern Christian traditions here.
Pax vobiscum, Welcome! This surely is the place to learn the above. Peace and blessings, Porter.
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