The authors examine the relationship between Roman Catholics and evangelicals over the past half century and speculate on the significance of current Catholic-evangelical interaction in today’s divided Christendom.
Noll and Nystrom provide us with a fact-filled chronicle, especially of the exchanges, convergences, conflicts, and even agreements of the past two decades.
As critical of evangelicals as they are of Catholics, the authors provide an overall assessment of the current dialogue that is hopeful but not without a number of challenges in the form of real differences, articulated with candor and genuine Christian conviction.
In the end, however, Noll and Nystrom give us a hopeful and appreciative book. This book will help all of us who are committed to exploring the common heritage, as well as the differences that still remain, between the two largest faith communities in the Christian world.”
Author Information: Mark A. Noll (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College. He is the author of many books, including A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, and Turning Points. Carolyn Nystrom, a freelance writer, is based in St. Charles, Illinois.
Contents:
Introduction
Things are not the way they used to be
Historic standoff
Why did things change?
Ecumenical dialogues
The Catholic catechism
Evangelicals and Catholics together
Reactions from antagonism to conversion
An American assessment
Is the Reformation over?
Reviews
"Here is superb theological journalism. The authors review Roman Catholic alterations of posture, if not of position, during the past half century; assess the overall shift as irreversible and transformational; and speculate provocatively on the significance of current Catholic-Evangelical interaction in today's divided Christendom. Their thorough historical analysis will be a landmark resource for exploring the theological questions that Roman Catholic reconfiguration raises. This is an important book."--J. I. Packer, Professor of Theology, Regent College."The Reformation is over only in the sense that to some extent it has succeeded. This book examines, with scholarly care and sensitivity, recent Evangelical-Roman Catholic developments that lend credence to this possibility. This book will help all of us who are committed to exploring the common heritage, as well as the differences that still remain, between the two largest faith communities in the Christian world."--Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School; executive editor of Christianity Today.
"A superbly researched, documented, and engagingly argued case that a new era in Catholic/Evangelical relations is dawning. Less clear is why this has happened. Is it because of diminished Catholic identity, disintegrating evangelical theology, or the intrusions of (post)modernity which incline people to be neither Protestant nor Catholic but simply religious? It is hard to know."--David F. Wells, Andrew Mutch Distinguished Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology.
ISBN: 9781842273876
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: PATERNOSTER PRESS - published 15/10/2005
Format: Paperback