ext_1540 ([identity profile] leksa.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] iceinyourmusic 2005-06-08 04:30 pm (UTC)

If not, can you not just walk away and be "lapsed", rather than "excommunicated"?

Actually, I pretty much thought that "excommunication" wasn't even in the Lutheran vocabulary, but -

Kirkosta eronnut elää ekskommunikaation tilassa eli näkyvän kirkollisen yhteyden ja sakramenttiyhteyden ulkopuolella.

- which, my translation is undoubtedly utterly imperfect in the dynamically equivalent sense, but word-for-word-li-ly, "A person who has left the church lives in a state of excommunication i.e. outside the visible churchly connection and the sacramental connection."

Oh, the terminology, it makes me sound so naughty! ;)

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