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Cuba Kirchengipfel, America’s Suspicion
Cuba, the backyard of the USA. Exceptionally,’s the Americans but no matter what is going on there. The Meeting of Pope and Patriarch awakens in the Protestant US Christians hardly feelings – and if they do, then skeptical.
US-American Christians look rather suspiciously on the Meeting between Pope Francis and the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kyrill. Mainly for political reasons: the head of the largest Orthodox Church is often perceived as part of the authoritarian regime of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (both in the product image). “Patriarch Kirill is not less imperialistic than the Tsar, or Putin”, says about the historian Thomas Noble of Notre Dame University in the state of Indiana.
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If Pope Francis is now the Patriarch of Moscow hits, this could be as a support of the Kremlchefs are to be interpreted. Criticism of US-Christians, that the Catholic and the Orthodox Church are generally very reticent in Ecumenical dialogue.
A rapprochement of the two churches, the of the dogmas of the first centuries after Christ, hold on, could in the USA, many seem like an Remove yourself from the churches, which according to Martin Luther: Protestants, evangelicals, Lutherans or Freikirchler. Non-Catholics and Non-Orthodox represent the majority of the 173 million Christians in the United States.
Skepticism so, when it comes to the Kirchengipfel in Cuba – louder public criticisms of the Meeting shy away from the most Evangelical or Protestant theologians, but then back.
“We recognize their bishops not to”
Stanley Lemons of Rhode Island College is good, that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kyrill several hours to come together, to discuss the persecution of Christians in the Middle East to exchange. In his opinion, can do everything that the unity of the Church promotes, is only able to be approved. That his “First Baptist Church” with the Kirchengipfel but not much else to do, it makes Lemons, but also clear: “We have a very different policy, and recognize their bishops do not.” At all be the structures with the Baptists, other, not a Patriarch, not a Pope. “We can each only speak for themselves.”
Cranach the Younger replacement for his supper (detail) the Disciples with Evangelical theologians. The image fits on the USA: There are innumerable Protestant denominations, and a majority of US Christians, arranges them to
Kathryn Kleinhans of the Lutherans at the Wartburg College in Iowa is reminiscent of the story of the 16. Century – as the Vatican in Rome, the reformer Martin Luther exkommunizierte. In the decades afterwards would have the Lutherans, the proximity to the Orthodox Church sought to have their policy “Augsburg confession” even the Greek translated and the Orthodox Patriarch to Constantinople sent.
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And today? Kleinhans explains that the Lutheran Ecumenical relations with Catholics and Orthodox alike entertained. “Because it is a good thing if our respective interlocutors are now directly talk to each other.”
Professor Tom Ferguson welcomed the Kirchengipfel in Cuba. The Dean at Bexley Seabury Seminary, the Episkopalen Church recalls that the Episkopalen in the United States for years, very good Ecumenical relations with the Russian Orthodox Church. Since 2003, however, the relations on ice.
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The reason: The Episkopalen appointed a Bishop, the openly of his homosexuality known. What in other Parts of the world so excited as a “historic Meeting” is expected, aroused among the majority of reformed US Christians hardly a subject of debate. “At the end”, says Ferguson, “most likely Evangelicals or Anglicans in the United States didn’t know that this Meeting on Cuba at all.”