Churches in America
Overview
Sunday School classes often include students from different religious backgrounds. This text helps teachers become familiar with churches in the United States, explore what they believe, and compare them to the Lutheran Church. The guide serves as a resource for private study, for participants in group study, and for study-group leaders.
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- Helpful information for leaders
- Statistics for the church bodies mentioned in this book
- Bibliographical references
Top Highlights
“In the 16th century the Council of Trent (Sixth Session) denounced the teaching that we are forgiven and justified solely for the sake of what Christ has done. Rome sees Christ’s obedience as the basis on which God gives us our own righteousness, not as Christ’s righteousness given to us (Rom. 1:17).” (Page 31)
“However, Roman Catholics still teach that justification means that God gives sinners a saving righteousness—a righteousness that they can use to help themselves in the face of God’s condemnation of them for their sin. That righteousness is an inherent righteousness, or moral holiness, that God creates in them by an act of renewal.” (Page 31)
“The Calvinistic heritage affirms many of the same doctrines that Lutherans do, such as the Trinity, the incarnation of Christ, the divine authority of Scripture (but not of tradition), and justification by Christ’s righteousness being credited to us. Some differences occur in the following areas.” (Page 38)
“Catholicism says that the Christian church is a body of people who profess faith in Christ and are governed by bishops and the pope. The government of bishops is part of God’s will for the church and must be included in the definition of the church.” (Page 33)
“Christ’s purpose in dying was only to make atonement for the elect” (Page 38)
- Title: Churches in America
- Author: Thomas Manteufel
- Editor: Arnold E. Schmidt
- Publisher: Concordia
- Publication Date: 1994
- Pages: 90
