Today there are more than five million Lutherans are present in the United States and Germany. It was the English reformation period when the king disagreed with the pope and changed the name of the Catholic Church to Anglican Church. He became the head of the church where both the catholic and protestant ideas were adopted. The 39 articles written in the same century describes the Anglican principles.
The significant church of Anglicans is situated in the United States with the name Episcopalian Church. Anglicans symbolize the presence of Jesus Christ with bread and wine, where bread denotes the body and wine denotes the blood of Jesus. They believe in praying to god in privacy. The Anglican churches are of two types one is a high church for wealthy people and Low Church for the middle class and poor people. They also have two sacraments like baptism and Holy Communion.
During the 16th century, Protestants were divided into many groups like Lutherans, Anglicans, Calvinists, and Anabaptists when martin Luther-a protestant, protested against the churches for practicing indulgences. Anglicans and Lutherans believe is faith in God is the gift of salvation. They left the catholic churches to fight for equality and privacy in prayers. They believe that people should have privacy and have all the rights that a pope has to worship god.
Only the holy books are enough to increase faith in God and achieve forgiveness from god. Episcopalians hold that only bishops who have received their authority in this way can properly ordain ministers and that without such Episcopal ordination a minister cannot validly perform the sacraments. For more information about denominational differences, you may read Churches in America by Thomas Manteufel , available from Concordia Publishing House What are the theological differences between Lutheran churches and Episcopal churches?
This difference is summarized as follows in Lewis Spitz's booklet "Our Church and Others": Episcopalians attach great important to the theory of the apostolic succession. You will often hear our Bishops speaking out on issues of justice in our society. And all of the baptized, lay and ordained, are expected to advocate on behalf of the poor and oppressed, and share the love of God with the world.
We are a unique local expression of the Episcopal Church — a faith as old as Christianity but particularly American in its origins. What is a Lutheran? What is an Episcopalian?
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