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[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Yeah. We had some interesting cases too.

But when we all got talking about the creeds, things got very interesting.
The Baptists had some faith statements of their own, which was cool, but
the interesting part was the way they chose to view the idea of apostolic
succession. They affirmed apostolic succession for their church, but in a
completely different way. And it worked.
I could not explain to you, at this late date, how it worked, but I can
tell you that it did.
I'm often fascinated how a very different tradition will work its way
around to the same goal, but in a very distinctive way, and getting to the
same place ultimately.
Jews have the same thing as our eucharist.  They get to the same place, but
in a different way.

Sort of proves that we're all on the same page, just different lines.
Whatever our orientation, we're all getting to the same place.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

> As someone from a sacramental tradition, I'm really glad I took liturgy
> from a Roman Catholic, not a Pentecostal (do they even have sacraments?).
> On the other hand, I guess generic liturgy classes could also be sorted out
> by denomination.  And I took a preaching class with a Pentecostal in the
> class, and her way of preaching was so foreign, that I couldn't even offer
> feedback.  Was she bad?  Or was she just faithful to her tradition?  It
> sounded really, really bad to me, but I was in no position to have an
> opinion.  On the other hand, a lot of my Yale Div School classes were
> nondenominational, and I loved it.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:37 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
> oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Even better is an end to denominational seminaries.  You can certainly
> have
> > classes on the polity stuff you think you ought to want to know, but a
> lot
> > of great learning happens at a seminary that does not happen in a school
> > run by one church just for its own kids.
> >
> > I had lots of friends who were from a fundamentalist background and hence
> > we had conversations in our seminary you just could not even have the
> > vaguest chance of having at a denominational-centered school.
> >
> > James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> > *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> > except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 6/30/2015 2:11:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > I  think all TEC seminarians should attend a service in as many other
> > > denominations as they can during their studies so as to both broaden
> > their
> > > horizons and to learn "What the competition is up to."  <g>>>>>
> > >
> > > But most of them have already "been there, done that."
> > >
> > > I don't know whether statistics have changed, but about the time
> > > I came into the Church (1958) a large majority of seminarians
> > > were said to be converts from another Christian denomination.
> > >
> > > I certainly experienced all sorts of worship styles in various
> > > denominations before (and since) my confirmation in 1958.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David Strang.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>