Changing Churches

<DIV>Sharp controversies -- about biblical authority the ordination of women evangelical worship styles and the struggle for homosexual inclusion -- have rocked the Lutheran church in recent decades. In <I>Changing Churches</I> two men who once communed at the same Lutheran Eucharistic table explain their similar but different decisions to leave the Lutheran faith tradition -- one for Orthodoxy the other for Roman Catholicism.<br><br> Here Mickey L. Mattox and A. G. Roeber address the most difficult questions Protestants face when considering such a conversion including views on justification grace divinization the church and its authority women and ministry papal infallibility the role of Mary and homosexuality. They also discuss the long-standing ecumenical division between Rome and the Orthodox patriarchates acknowledging the difficult issues that still confront those traditions from within and divide them from one another.</DIV>