Majalisar Cocin Ikklisiya ta Ikklisiya ta Evangelical Lutheran a Amurka (ELCA) ta dauki matakin yin watsi da maganganun da aka danganta ga masu gyara cocin Lutheran na farko tare da bayyana "bacin rai mai zurfi da kuma nadama game da zalunci da wahala da aka ziyarci Anabaptists a lokacin rikicin addini baya,” a cewar sanarwar manema labarai daga ELCA.
Majalisar Ikilisiya ita ce hukumar gudanarwa ta ELCA kuma tana aiki a matsayin ikon majalisa na coci tsakanin manyan majami'u. Majalisar ta gana a Chicago Nuwamba 11-13.
Majalisar ta yi hakan ne saboda maganganun da suka gabata sun zama matsala ga alakar ELCA ta yau da Cocin Mennonite USA da kuma sauran Kiristocin da suka gano gadon su zuwa ’yan canji na Anabaptist na ƙarni na 16, in ji sanarwar.
(Cocin ’Yan’uwa tana ba da gadon bangaskiyar Anabaptist, tare da Mennonites da sauran ɗarikoki.)
Majalisar ta ayyana cewa ELCA "ta ƙi yin amfani da hukumomin gwamnati don hukunta mutane ko ƙungiyoyi waɗanda ba su yarda da tauhidi ba." Ta yi watsi da gardamar Martin Luther da Philip Melanchthon, masu gyara coci a ƙarni na 16, “inda suka ɗauka cewa hukumomin gwamnati su hukunta Anabaptists don koyarwarsu.”
Matakin majalisar ya ki amincewa da irin wannan kalamai a cikin Formula of Concord kuma ya bayyana cewa la'antar da aka yi a cikin ikirari na Augsburg yana kan Anabaptists. Formula of Concord da Augsburg Confession suna cikin ikirari na Lutheran da aka rubuta a Turai a karni na 16.
A ƙarshe, majalisar ta ce zargi a cikin ikirari na Augsburg da ke da alaƙa da bangaskiyar baftisma na Anabaptist da aiki da kuma shiga cikin ikon 'yan sanda na jihar "daidai ne batun tattaunawa tsakanin majami'unmu a nan gaba."
“Manufar sanarwar ita ce, da farko, a ba da hakuri game da zaluncin Anabaptists waɗanda su ne kakannin Cocin Mennonite a Amurka da kuma a duk faɗin duniya, da kuma yarda cewa yanayin ƙarni na 16 ya daina aiki a cikin ƙarni na 21. Karni na XNUMX, ”in ji Randall R. Lee, babban jami’in ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Affairs, a wata hira da Sabis na Labarai na ELCA. "La'anar da ke kunshe a cikin ikirari na Lutheran na iya zama da mahimmanci a wancan lokacin, amma sun koma kan mahimmancinsu na wannan lokaci da kuma nan gaba."
Ji sharhi daga Lee a http://media.ELCA.org/audionews/061114A.mp3 da http://media.ELCA.org/audionews/061114B.mp3. Don Blog ɗin Labarai na ELCA je zuwa www.elca.org/news/blog.
(An ciro wannan labarin daga Sabis ɗin Labarai na ELCA.)