WOF 101: What to Make of the Protestant Reformation?

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🗓️ 13 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We just passed the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant Reformation, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a Wittenberg church, and initiated a massive split of the Christian community. What should Catholics make of this event 500 years later? How should we view Protestantism and relate to our Protestant brothers and sisters? That's what Bishop Barron discussed today. A listener asks how Catholics should feel about Protestants.

Topics Discussed

0:05 - Introduction
2:00 - What are Bishop Barron's initial thoughts on this anniversary?
4:00 - Who is Stanley Hauerwas?
6:15 - Why is Hauerwas so friendly to the Catholic tradition?
8:00 - Is the Reformation effectively over?
13:40 - How does the Reformation continue to fracture the Church Universal?
17:50 - What was the difference maker for reform movements that did not splinter the Church, such as the Franciscans and Dominicans?
21:00 - Is the problem of authority the key to Protestantism?
24:00 - How should Catholics feel about Protestant denominations?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm your host for this episode. Jared Zimmer, the
0:10.5	director of Outreach and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, I'm joined by the
0:15.4	illustrious Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop, how are you doing today?
0:18.2	Hey Jared, I'm doing well. Always good to be with you.
0:21.2	Wonderful. Well, recently you had the opportunity to film a new study program. You know, surround
0:27.4	the mask. Can you tell us a little bit how it went and maybe a little bit of a sneak peek?
0:31.8	Yeah, well those are always fun. They're also long and demanding days. So we gather about
0:40.0	a thousand people at the church of our Lady of Saros, right here in downtown Santa Barbara,
0:44.9	one of the most beautiful churches here. And people came from all over the area. And then I came
0:50.8	out and did six roughly 20 minute presentations. And they were filmed by the great spirit juice,
0:56.8	production company, who have done a number of videos for us. And I hope those will be out
1:02.4	maybe like a year from now. We got to go through the whole process now of editing those and adding
1:08.0	imagery and music and study programs and so on. But my hope is that it can be used in a wide
1:13.8	variety of settings because you know, the mass is the source in someone of the Christian life of
1:19.6	anyone becoming a Catholic, anyone seeking a deeper understanding of their Catholicism should
1:25.9	want to study the mass. So anyway, that was what last Saturday. So it was a good day, but as I say,
1:34.1	kind of a hard day, but I hope that it bears fruit. Well, speaking of the mass and sacraments,
1:40.7	you know, kind of going right into our main topic of discussion today, we recently had the
1:46.3	500th anniversary of the Reformation. Of course, when Martin Luther famously came forth with his
1:52.9	95thesis, you know, Bishop, what was your initial thoughts on really the importance of this 500
1:59.0	year anniversary? Well, the Reformation, I think, is of great interest to anyone who follows the great
2:04.4	prayer of Jesus that we all might be one. So in the measure that the Reformation was a church
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