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What is the Christian denomination closest to my ideas?

What is the Christian denomination closest to my ideas?


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Lucy27

New Member
I am a young lesbian woman and I look for the Christian denomination suitable for me.
I believe that the life of faith is a communitarian life, not solitary or individualistic existence.
I love mysticism, spirituality, patristic theology and medieval theology, I like liturgy, I love philosophy and rationality, I'm tomistic, I hate fanaticism, biblicism and fundamentalism, I am in favor of female ordination, I support the sacramental blessing of gay couples, I am an anti abortion (but I am in favor of freedom of choice), I am ecologist, feminist and socialist, I support the theology of liberation,I am a Greenpeace militant, I believe that the bishop of Rome should be the collegial leader of all Christianity, I believe that Living Tradition and the Sacraments are fundamental in the life of the Church, I hate fideism, bigotry and obscurantism, I do not really like Protestant reform (Calvin and Luther) and I believe that the critical historical method is fundamental to reading the Bible. I believe that the Koran and the Vedas are beautiful texts. I am against euthanasia. I love monasticism. I believe that the ecumenical Councils or the bishop of Rome (if he acts collectively in the name of the Church) is in some cases infallible. I believe the bishops must be elected by the people and the clergy. I believe in the real presence in the Eucharist,I believe that the existence of God is rationally demonstrable, I think that the marriage, the penance, the extreme unction and ordination are sacraments and I am devoted to Mary the Virgin and the Saints. I believe that Henry VIII's schism was ridiculous. I believe that all Christian churches should return to being a single body of Christ. I believe that many Christians are sexophobic, homophobes and repressed but the sex with love is a way to God. Premarital sex, contraception and masturbation are not sins. I believe there must be an ecclesiastical Magisterium but it can be criticized.
 
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Shiranui117

Pronounced Shee-ra-noo-ee
Premium Member
I love mysticism, spirituality, patristic theology and medieval theology, I like liturgy, I love philosophy and rationality, I'm tomistic, I hate fanaticism, biblicism and fundamentalism, I am in favor of female ordination, I support the sacramental blessing of gay couples, I am an anti abortion (but I am in favor of freedom of choice), I am ecologist, feminist and socialist, I support the theology of liberation,I am a Greenpeace militant, I believe that the bishop of Rome should be the collegial leader of all Christianity, I believe that Living Tradition and the Sacraments are fundamental in the life of the Church, I hate fideism, bigotry and obscurantism, I do not really like Protestant reform (Calvin and Luther) and I believe that the critical historical method is fundamental to reading the Bible. I believe that the Koran and the Vedas are beautiful texts. I am against euthanasia.
I believe in the real presence in the Eucharist,I believe that the existence of God is rationally demonstrable, I think that the marriage, the penance, the extreme unction and ordination are sacraments and I am devoted to Mary the Virgin and the Saints.
You're not Orthodox because of your support for the Papacy, Thomism and medieval scholasticism. You're not Protestant because you're not a Sola Scripturist, you love mysticism and you believe in the Sacraments. But you're not a vanilla Roman Catholic because of your support for women's ordination and gay marriage.

This would mark you as either being a liberal Catholic or an Anglican.
 

Lucy27

New Member
You're not Orthodox because of your support for the Papacy, Thomism and medieval scholasticism. You're not Protestant because you're not a Sola Scripturist, you love mysticism and you believe in the Sacraments. But you're not a vanilla Roman Catholic because of your support for women's ordination and gay marriage.

This would mark you as either being a liberal Catholic or an Anglican.

I added some details.
 

Lucy27

New Member
We're often told the emergence of the Church of England was just about Henry VIII wanting to get divorced. That isn't accurate, there was a lot more at play, that was just the catalyst. There had been divisions between British and continental Christianity going back since the tradition first spread to the British Isles.

You may be interested in some of the churches in the Union of Utrecht.

They deny absolutely the infallibility of the Roman seat.
I am in favor of papal infallibility if it is exercised with the consent of the Church.
 

Shiranui117

Pronounced Shee-ra-noo-ee
Premium Member
I added some details.
Yep, you are indeed closest to being a liberal Catholic in my book. I also don't think you're too far off from what many young, educated, progressive Catholics in the US are like.
 

outlawState

Deism is dead
I would say that the Christian denomination most suitable for you is one that is going to completely reform your character, because reformation is what you need. For Christianity is not gnosticism or how much or what you know, but devotion to and faith in Christ, yet it seems that you have no knowledge of the true teachings of him whom you profess. As you come from a Catholic background, I can understand your attachment to what you conceive of as Christianity for in Catholicism, Christianity is more about church membership than anything else. Yet being baptized or confirmed does not make you a Christian under any biblical doctrine, nor does going to church. So I would suggest Eastern Orthodoxy or main line protestant, e.g, Free Presbyterianism as a reformatory experience for you.
 
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