Powering a center channel with a two channel amp

Um, what?? 

Anyway I can interpret this it all seems too complicated.  

The center is NOT the sum of the L and R signals, whether we are talking Dolby ProLogic or 5.1.  The center out from your AVR is the only viable input.

As for amps, you could get a stereo amp and bridge it or a mono amp or perhaps a 3 channel amp to poewr the center and surrounds. 

Yeah, I should have looked at my amps manual before posting.  I was going off a theater sound installers advice, which he said to just use one channel of the amp to power the center, and when I searched that, it wasn’t an option.

I learned that I can run my MC352 in either parallel or mono, to power my center.  My only concern is that when doing that, it cuts the impedance of the amp in half.  So the amp would be 4 ohms and the speaker is 8, with 3 being the lowest.

Is there a reason why you can't run the MC352 using only one channel of the stereo pair?  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the MC352 is solidstate and not class A?  If so, it should be able to run without a load on one of the stereo channels.

I’m using a crown xls 1502 powering a center channel, one side is for the tweeter and the other side is for the full range side. Just remember to set the crossover to the correct spec for the center channel frequencies.