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If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
Suppose protestants wanted to start "canonizing" people using a standard of personal piety similar to that currently used in the Catholic Church. Who would they choose?
The Catholic Church has both Saints and sinners. Some folk want to judge us by our sinners - by the people who fail to uphold the Catholic Faith. That's hardly fair - judge us by our Saints, who do uphold the Faith. We have many such Saints to offer as examples of faithful Catholics.
If a protestant wanted to offer a similar example of someone who had achieved remarkable piety through the steadfast practice of (some) protestant faith, who might serve as such an example?
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
The Lutherans would of curse take Luther, and the other "Churches" would take the person who founded them. Most protestant "Churches" I know already treat their founder like a Saint.
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Júdica me, Deus, et discérne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab dómine iníquo et dolóso érue me.
Quia tu es, Deus, fortitúdo mea: quare me repulísti, et quare tristis incédo, dum affligit me inimícus?
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Aug 8, '12, 4:29 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
Corrie TenBoom comes to mind.
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Aug 8, '12, 4:41 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
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Corrie TenBoom comes to mind.
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She's the second one who came to mind. 
C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Martin Luther King (maybe).
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
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Suppose protestants wanted to start "canonizing" people using a standard of personal piety similar to that currently used in the Catholic Church. Who would they choose?
The Catholic Church has both Saints and sinners. Some folk want to judge us by our sinners - by the people who fail to uphold the Catholic Faith. That's hardly fair - judge us by our Saints, who do uphold the Faith. We have many such Saints to offer as examples of faithful Catholics.
If a protestant wanted to offer a similar example of someone who had achieved remarkable piety through the steadfast practice of (some) protestant faith, who might serve as such an example?
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Ooooo....Great minds think alike....  ....
I did a thread like this several years ago...and it got over 250 responses....but is now closed.
I do remember "Corrie Ten-Bloom" being nominated on that thread.
(It's HERE if anyone is interested in taking a peek)
Peace
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Aug 8, '12, 5:20 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
Martin Luther, John Calvin, Corrie Ten Boom, Adrian Judson ( fouder of the missionary movement of the 1800s), and many more.
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Aug 8, '12, 5:26 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
John Wesley who founded the Methodist Church. I heard Father Groschel say if he had been a Catholic, he would have been a saint.
I would think that any Protestant missionary who gave his/her life would be a candidate.
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Aug 8, '12, 6:28 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
The Columbine student Bessie Bernall..I think that's her name...who wouldn't deny God and died for her belief.
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Aug 8, '12, 6:35 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
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Aug 8, '12, 7:34 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
Elizabeth Fedde would be a good choice.
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Aug 8, '12, 7:43 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
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I would think that any Protestant missionary who gave his/her life would be a candidate.
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So true.
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Aug 8, '12, 7:48 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
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Originally Posted by DavidFilmer
Suppose protestants wanted to start "canonizing" people using a standard of personal piety similar to that currently used in the Catholic Church. Who would they choose?
The Catholic Church has both Saints and sinners. Some folk want to judge us by our sinners - by the people who fail to uphold the Catholic Faith. That's hardly fair - judge us by our Saints, who do uphold the Faith. We have many such Saints to offer as examples of faithful Catholics.
If a protestant wanted to offer a similar example of someone who had achieved remarkable piety through the steadfast practice of (some) protestant faith, who might serve as such an example?
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I really can't do better than point you to the evangelical saints' lives published by my parents, particularly the "They Knew Their God" series.
A few names off the top of my head:
David Brainerd
John Fletcher
Mary Slessor
John and Betty Stam
Edwin
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Aug 8, '12, 8:01 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
The Mormons would certainly have Joe Smith and Brigham Young. Surprised they weren't mentioned already.
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
Anglicans would likely have Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
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Aug 8, '12, 8:07 am
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Re: If protestants started canonizing people, who would they choose?
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Anglicans would likely have Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.
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No.
You don't understand Anglicanism.
The only monarch (indeed the only person) canonized by post-Reformation Anglicanism is Charles I, because he was (by some definitions) a martyr for the faith. (The Puritan revolutionaries supposedly offered him his life if he would abolish the episcopacy, and he refused.) And even that's controversial--many Anglicans do not acknowledge him as a saint.
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