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What is the difference between Lutheran and Anglican church practices and beliefs?

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  • 9 years ago
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    The Anglican church is a church that spans a spectrum of belief from 'High Anglicanism' that can be as Catholic as the Roman Catholic church to 'Low Anglicanism' that can be as evangelical as any denomination can be. (My wife & I are both uncompromising evangelicals and though we are no longer associated with the Church of England (the Anglican church in England), we were married in an Anglican church & our wedding was very evangelical / evangelistic.)

    As a church that covers such a broad spectrum of belief, the High Anglican church (Anglo-Catholicism) believes in transubstantiation in common with the Roman Catholic church. However, most of the English Protestant martyrs who were burnt at the stake under the reign of Queen Mary died because of their refusal to compromise over their REJECTION of transubstantiation. These men died whilst holding the highest offices in the Church of England - Thomas Cranmer was the then Archbishop of Canterbury and John Hooper was the then Bishop of Gloucester.

    I can't write with much authority about the Lutheran church. I've never attended a Lutheran service. Like the Anglican church, it was one of the earliest movements in the Reformation (pre-dating Anglicanism). And unlike later churches e.g. the Methodists, the Baptists, the Brethren etc, they hadn't fully thought through what Protestant evangelicals should believe in regard to Biblical truth. Some of the Lutheran beliefs are quite Catholic in that they believe in the real presence of God in the Communion wafer & wine. The Lutherans appear to have rejected the office of the Bishop & Archbishop.

    It is probably on these last two doctrines, the Communion table and Episcopalism, that the two churches have their differences. Both churches have had a tremendous missionary zeal with Anglican churches as well as Lutheran churches having been established in many parts of the world.

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    4 years ago

    Anglican Church Beliefs And Practices

  • 9 years ago

    lutheran is the german church and anglican is English. Not much difference really they are both

    a business taking money and investing it. i have been to both and never again.

    Source(s): life and relegion.
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