MaxPC wrote:Interesting question, Wayne as neither group is exactly the same as they were 500 years. What are your goals for this question?
What are the goals for this question? Well, to get answers!
Max, you often suggest that there are real similarities between Plain Catholics and Anabaptists, even a working relationship between Amish and some of your group. In a recent discussion you said:
Both the Schleitheim and Dordrecht confessions share common theological ground with our theology. Both are excellent.
Our family has acquaintances who are very, very conservative, homeschooling/homesteading, Latin Mass attending Roman Catholics. Let's say they are the closest to "plain" among Catholics I know. We don't talk religion - they have an old Catholic view of Anabaptists as fanatical schematics - early in our acquaintance they mentioned the Muenster uprising as the origin of the Amish, Mennonites and Hutterites. They certainly would have no affinity for Schleitheim and Dortrecht.
My question is not about kaps and cape dresses and shoo-fly pies. It is about your statement that plain Catholics or perhaps Catholics in general (You weren't clear on whose theology you were referring to in your statement) share common ground with Dortrecht and Schleitheim. I simply want to discuss this with someone familiar with your movement. I would be fascinated to know what parts of these fundamental confessions of faith of the Anabaptists your movement/church is grounded in.
There is no reason to discuss this privately. You might even invite some others of your Plain Catholic circle to join MennoNet and be a part of this discussion.