reactionary<\/em>. Speaking for myself, I have always viewed Protestantism as a very good thing. I simply think Catholicism is better: \u201cvery good and best\u201d rather than \u201cbad and good.\u201d But of course, many who leave Catholicism for Protestantism see the former as an evil, bad thing.<\/p>\nVirtually all converts I know do not feel this way at all. We criticize aspects of Protestantism, of course (especially apologists like me), but we don\u2019t run it down as some essentially terrible, evil, monstrous thing. We simply believe it is an inadequate, skeletal version of the full, apostolic Christianity that we have found in the Catholic Church. \u201cBetter and best.\u201d A chicken leg with a little bit of meat on it is a good thing. But a chicken leg right from the oven with all the meat is a much better thing. We don\u2019t say the lesser version is \u201cbad.\u201d It just ain\u2019t \u201cenough\u201d and a person wants more than that.<\/p>\n
The divisions and all the nonsense to be found in Protestantism are certainly fairly important factors leading to disenchantment and the urge to explore other avenues. But it can\u2019t account for conversion in and of itself. That is my point. It is no \u201cgrand explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was a pretty \u201chappy, satisfied\u201d committed evangelical Protestant for 13 years. I knew there were a host of problems in Protestant ranks, and wrote about them (e.g., critiquing the \u201cname-it-claim-it\u201d errors as early as 1982, nine years before my conversion). This didn\u2019t make me want to convert. I gave that very little thought at all until 1990, the very year of my conversion.<\/p>\n
Rather, it was the positive things I saw in Catholicism which drew me to it: particularly the sublime moral theology that I saw preserved nowhere in Protestantism. Also, development of doctrine was persuasive to me, because it made a great deal of sense of Church history. I had dealt with development in the early 80s also, in defending the Trinity against the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. We used to write about how the early Church had developed its thinking on the theology of God, etc. So this resonated with me later on, in working through various other issues.<\/p>\n
Now someone may say I am an exception; that most other converts did it because they are fed up with \u201cReformed coldness\u201d or in-fighting, or whatever else it is. I suppose former Reformed might have more of that aspect in their story (judging by how they talk about their own sphere and what goes on there).<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t Reformed, though; I was an Arminian, who had a great deal of respect for many Reformed thinkers (especially Francis Schaeffer and J. I. Packer) but didn\u2019t worship in those circles. Our problems had more to do with apathy, hypocrisy, and silly, insubstantial fights (such as over who should be pastor) than doctrinal issues. I accepted these as a necessary evil, and refused to participate in them. But again, this didn\u2019t cause me to convert.<\/p>\n
Catholic converts may often complain about various errors and faults in Protestantism and Protestant circles, but when it gets down to brass tacks, the reason they give for their conversion will almost always be a positive one: the Eucharist, the papacy, Tradition, Mary and the saints (often things that are neglected altogether in many Protestant circles).<\/p>\n
The error here lies in the relative weight placed on the complaints vs. the espousal of new Catholic distinctives. I contend that the latter is far more influential in the decision to convert than the former.<\/p>\n
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(originally from 9-11-04)<\/p>\n
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Catholics (especially converts) are well familiar with the sort of argumentation that argues that people become Catholic for all kinds of reasons: but not doctrinal, rational ones. It is a subtle variation of the old \u201csmells and bells\u201d routine. The Catholic could never be what he is because of a sound comparison of systems, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":19538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2334,1438,2335,1439],"class_list":["post-19535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversion-and-converts","tag-catholic-conversion","tag-catholic-conversion-stories","tag-catholic-converts","tag-religious-conversion"],"yoast_head":"\n
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