Can someone direct me to Protestant & Catholic sacred texts?

Question

Please don't give me Wikipedia links, I know how to find Wikipedia. I need help locating good sources of accurate information for Protestant and Catholic sacred text. I need the information for comparison. Unless you can compare them extensively and reference it to a good source then I'd rather have a few good links. Any help would be good, thanks.

Answer 1

They're predominantly the same... It's called the Bible. Both Protestants and Catholics use the Old and New Testaments. The difference is that Catholics also use the Apocrypha, which are a group of historical books from the time between the OT and the NT.

Answer 2

To study the Protestant sacred texts, you might start with the King James translation of the Bible, Martin Luther's Theses and work, The Book of Common Prayer, and the Quaker Reader. Also, I've given you a link below to the Digital Library of Protestant Sacred Writings.

To study the Catholic theology, get a copy of the Jerusalem Bible. This is very good too, for contrasting text which is interpreted differently by Protestant and Catholic scholars. There are notes in the margins which let you know when there is disagreement, or differing translations. St. Augustine's Confessions, the Summa Theologica of Thomas of Aquinas, and the writings of Teresa de Jesus of Avila are also a good beginning.
Also, Tan Books of Rockford, Illinois, publishes a Doay Rheims version of the Bible which is approved by the Catholic authorities.

You might also know that there is at least one other branch of Christianity, called Orthodoxy, which developed from a schism in the early history of the Church. Included are Greek, Russian, Serbian, even Syriac Orthodoxy.

Answer 3

There are official catholic bible translations. Each protestant group can make up its own and most have never adopted an official translation that I know of. Generally the disagreements outside of translations boil down to the place of the Jewish apocrypha since the books of the NT bible are pretty much agreed upon except by Luther (he questioned Hebrews, James, Jude and Revelation - I don't know if the Lutherans still follow Luther or if they have adopted the standard list).

Answer 4

The Catholic Church has sacred texts, they have been around since the time of Jesus.

The Protestants are a wide varing group of different variations of Christianiaty, there is not a single voice for all Protestants.

Peace!

Answer 5

The sacred text of the Catholic Church is the Holy Bible. You can find it online at http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/index.htm

The bible that Protestants use do not include all of the books of the Holy Bible. The Protestant took their list of books that belong to the Bible from the Jewish list of books. This list of books was developed to protest the books used by the Christian movement.

Answer 6

Roman Catholicism is #1 in the major branch of Christianity



Christianity began in the 1st century AD as a Jewish sect, and shares many religious texts with Judaism, specifically the Hebrew Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament (see Judeo-Christian).

There is a diversity of doctrines and practices among groups calling themselves Christian. These groups are sometimes classified under denominations, though for theological reasons many groups reject this classification system.Christianity may be broadly represented as being divided into three main groupings:

1) Roman Catholicism: The Roman Catholic Church, the largest single body, includes the Latin Rite and totals more than 1 billion baptized members.

2) Eastern Christianity: Eastern Orthodox Churches, Oriental Orthodox Churches, the 100,000 member Assyrian Church of the East, and others with a combined membership of more than 300 million baptized members.

3) Protestantism: Groups such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed/Presbyterians, Congregational/United Church of Christ, Evangelical, Charismatic, Baptists, Methodists, Nazarenes, Anabaptists, Seventh-day Adventists and Pentecostals. The oldest of these separated from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Estimates of the total number of
Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in this category, but it seems to be unquestionable that Protestantism is the second major branch of Christianity (after Roman Catholicism) in number of followers.


Wikipedia:
Some Protestants identify themselves simply as Christian, or born-again Christian; they typically distance themselves from the confessionalism of other Protestant communities[11] by calling themselves "non-denominational" — often founded by individual pastors, they have little affiliation with historic denominations. Others, particularly some Anglicans, eschew the term Protestant and thus insist on being thought of as Catholic, adopting the name "Anglo-Catholic."[12] Finally, various small communities, such as the Old Catholic and Independent Catholic Churches, are similar in name to the Roman Catholic Church, but are not in communion with the See of Rome. The Roman Catholic Church was simply called the "Catholic Church" until other groups started considering themselves "Catholic." The term "Roman Catholic" was made to distinguish the Roman Catholics from other groups.[13][14]

Restorationists, are historically connected to the Protestant Reformation,[15] do not usually describe themselves as "reforming" a Christian Church continuously existing from the time of Jesus, but as restoring the Church that they believe was lost at some point. Restorationists include Churches of Christ with 2.6 million members, Disciples of Christ with 800,000 members,[16] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 12 million members,[3] and Jehovah’s Witnesses with 6.6 million members.[17] Though Restorationists have some basic similarities, their doctrine and practices vary significantly.

Answer 7

Wikipedia list references. Look to them.

Answer 8

Churchianity is a pagan religion. They do not honor Scripture, or the Almighty of Scripture (YHVH). they each take a few texts out of context, and wrest them to fit their belief, rather than conforming their belief to Scripture! Scripture presents the Almighty YHVH, and the Messiah, YAHOSHUA! It also tells of the special day the Creator set aside for worship, which is the Seventh day, yes "Saturday". No "denomination" accepts even these few central teachings of Scripture. (I could go on.)

Answer 9

you should read all the texts you can get your hands on, not just the ones "allowed" by the church. after all, most of the texts that are accurate have been censored by the catholic church, because it goes against their stranglehold on everyone's purses.

Answer 10

Catholic texts can be found at the Vatican's website:

The Bible: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM

Documents of recent Popes: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/index.htm

Documents of Vatican II: http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

The Code of Canon Law: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM

With love in Christ.