Talk: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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The category Christian fundamentalism and evangelicalism encompasses two topics. One edit placed the ELCA in this category. Based on the five tests of fundamentalism, the ELCA does not subscribe to biblical inerrancy; although it is closely aligned with the category of Christian Evangelicalism. See the discussion How do Lutherans look upon the Bible? I will be doing a similar edit to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania page.
Robbie Giles 14:24, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)
I look thru the history page of this group and the first entry looks like a stub. it appears that later on someone replace that with something from elca website. I will put the original back inSmith03 17:43, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC).
I tried to flesh out what was here a little bit. Being a member of the rival Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod colors my perspective, but I tried to be fair. Hopefully an ELCA member will come along sometime and elaborate/expand a bit. Dave Farquhar 21:32, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
The ELCA and LCMS are not rivals, just two different church bodies with different histories. EdwinHJ 06:25, 28 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Sorry, the word "rival" is perhaps a bit harsh, but we do have some differences. Dave Farquhar 14:12, 29 Nov 2003 (UTC)
If they are rivals, what's their win-loss record? Fishal 17:02, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
How is the sex abuse not relevant to the ELCA main info page? It was the largest per capita settlment in U.S. history; it made ABC, CNN, Fox News, and Yahoo's main stories, and even foreign papers. Current events become historical events over time, the fact that it is current does not diminish its worthiness to be included in a wikipedia article. If there were, no articles on September 11 or the occupation of Iraq would exist. There is also a precendent for including sex abuse in a main church article: the sex abuse scandals envolving the catholic church are included there.
This was a story that got international coverage; invloves a fact of national scale, and is certainly an inmportant development in the history of the ELCA and is relevant to the article. The reference should be restored; perhaps as part of a more comprehensive history of the church; it should have never been deleted without discussion.
- -JCarriker 03:17, May 1, 2004 (UTC)
- Since, there seems to be no objections I am going to place the child abuse information back into the article.
- --JCarriker 01:42, May 18, 2004 (UTC)
