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500 Years Later, ELCA Reconciles with Anabaptists
Abstract: A new hermeneutic for the Lutheran Confessions.
At its November, 2006 meeting, the ELCA church council took action to reject past statements attributed to early Lutheran church reformers and expressed "its deep and abiding sorrow and regret for the persecution and suffering visited upon the Anabaptists during the religious disputes of the past." The Council's action emphasized that condemnations in the Augsburg Confession directed at Anabaptists do not apply to today's Mennonite Church USA: "the situation of the 16th century no longer applies in the 21st century." More info.
(Vol. I, iv, November 19, 2006 )