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The Augustana Catholic Church (ACC), formerly the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church (ALCC) and the Evangelical Community Church-Lutheran (ECCL), is an American church in the Lutheran Evangelical Catholic tradition. The ALCC claims to be unique among Lutheran churches in that it is of both Lutheran and Anglo-Catholic heritage and has also been significantly influenced by the Roman Catholic Church. The church was founded in 1997 by former members of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Its headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.〔.〕 The ACC has long had a policy of seeking union with the Catholic Church and announced in 2011 that it would accept the conditions of ''Anglicanorum coetibus'' and join the personal ordinariates as they are established. Later developments on limitations of joining the ordinariate caused the ACC to hold their offer while they established intercommunion with groups such as the Old Roman Catholic Church of North America. ==Doctrine== The Augustana Catholic Church considers Lutherans to be Catholics in a temporary involuntary schism imposed on it by the Roman Catholic Church when Martin Luther's attempt to start a renewal movement within Roman Catholicism slipped out of his control.〔.〕〔.〕〔.〕 The ALCC teaches that Lutheranism in general is a form of non-Roman Catholicism, and considers the other Lutheran churches to be "Protestant" only to the extent that they have accepted insights from the Calvinist and Zwinglian phases of the Reformation.〔.〕 The Augustana Catholic Church accepts the Unaltered Augsburg Confession,〔For a discussion of prospects for some kind of Roman Catholic recognition of the Augsburg Confession, see Richard John Neuhaus, ("Augsburg and Catholicism: Healing the Reformation Breach," ) ''Theology Today'' 37, no. 3 (Oct. 1980): 294–305. "In 1974 the idea was first advanced that the Roman Catholic Church should 'recognize' the Augsburg Confession. It received wider attention when Joseph Ratzinger, now Cardinal Archbishop of Munich, took up the possibility of a 'Catholic recognition of the Augsburg Confession or, more correctly, of recognizing the Augsburg Confession as Catholic.'" Neuhaus concluded: "There will be no one act of reunion between the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church; there will at some point be a favorable response from a Lutheran church or churches. With that initiating reunion, the situation of all of Lutheranism will have changed. Lutherans who then care to maintain fellowship with other Lutherans will be inclined, if not compelled, to act out the logic that is inherent in the already prevailing consensus that the interim church called Lutheran must pursue its destiny as a movement for all the church in the healing of the breach of the sixteenth century.”〕〔Paul A. Schreck, "Under one Christ: implications of a Roman Catholic recognition of the Confessio Augustana in CE 2017," ''Journal of Ecumenical Studies'' 43, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 90–110.〕 the Apology of the Augsburg Confession, and Martin Luther's Small Catechism, but only insofar as they are in full agreement with Roman Catholic faith and order, doctrines, and traditions. The ALCC recognizes the other documents contained in ''The Book of Concord''—except for the Formula of Concord—but only insofar as they are in full agreement with Roman Catholic faith, order, doctrines and traditions. It does not accept the Formula of Concord on any level, nor is it bound by any of its terms and provisions, though it does respect it as a historical Lutheran document.〔.〕 The ACC has accepted major modifications in sacramental theology and principles of church government from the Church of Sweden (Lutheran), the Oxford Movement of the Anglican Communion, and the documents and teachings of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church which includes the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' (1994). The ACC claims to be unique among Lutheran churches in that it accepts, as additional confessional documents, the Articles of Religion from the ''Book of Common Prayer'' as interpreted by John Henry Newman in ''Tracts for the Times''〔See John Henry Cardinal Newman, "Remarks on Certain Passages in the Thirty-Nine Articles," ''Tracts for the Times'', no. XC (1841).〕 (insofar as they do not conflict with authentic Catholic faith and tradition); the Roman Catholic–Lutheran ''Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification'' (Augsburg, Germany, 1999);〔.〕 the Catechism of the Catholic Church; and the documents and decrees of all Ecumenical Councils recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. The ALCC's strongest connections are with the Roman Catholic Church and some form of visible, corporate unity with that church is the ecumenical goal of the ALCC. Since June 2008, all clergy of the ACC are required to sign a version of the Roman Catholic ''mandatum'',〔.〕 a legally binding contract requiring the signatories not to teach, preach, write, or publish anything contrary to the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church. The Augustana Catholic Church accepts papal primacy and papal infallibility even though it is not under papal control at this time. The ACC is theologically and socially conservative, with the same view of the nature and authority of scripture as the Roman Catholic Church as stated in the Vatican II document, ''The Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation'' - ''Dei verbum''〔.〕 and the Pontifical Biblical Commission's document, ''The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church''.〔.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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