{"id":25754,"date":"2017-10-31T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=25754"},"modified":"2025-11-16T05:44:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T13:44:06","slug":"reformation-milestone-experts-detect-astounding-thirst-unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/reformation-milestone-experts-detect-astounding-thirst-unity\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On Reformation Milestone, Experts Detect \u2018Astounding\u2019 Thirst For Unity&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>LTRP Note:<\/strong> The following is posted for informational and research purposes and not as an endorsement of the source or the content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By John L. Allen Jr.<\/strong><br \/><strong> <em>Crux<\/em> (Catholic publication)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two experts on the Catholic\/Lutheran relationship, one Catholic and the other Lutheran, both say that joint commemorations of today&#8217;s 500th anniversary of the launch of the Protestant Reformation reflect a strong yearning for unity in the grassroots, and may represent a new &#8220;springtime&#8221; in ecumenism, meaning the quest for Christian unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five hundred years ago today, tradition has it, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the cathedral in Wittenberg, Germany, thereby triggering the Protestant Reformation that\u2019s divided Western Christianity ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, two experts on each side of that Catholic\/Lutheran divide say what they detect in the trenches is an \u201castounding\u201d thirst for unity. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171031122201\/https:\/\/cruxnow.com\/interviews\/2017\/10\/31\/reformation-milestone-experts-detect-astounding-thirst-unity\/\">Click here <\/a>to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LTRP Note: The following is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2873,122,164,89,45],"tags":[1714,2638,2756,3778,2933,380,630,817],"class_list":["post-25754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-world-religion","category-a-global-spirituality","category-ecumenism","category-road-to-rome","category-signs-of-the-times","tag-pope-francis","tag-unity","tag-mother-church","tag-lutheran-church","tag-ecumenism","tag-roman-catholicism","tag-reformation","tag-one-world-religion","wpcat-2873-id","wpcat-122-id","wpcat-164-id","wpcat-89-id","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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