Evangelicals & Catholics Together

From ReligiousNewsBlog.com, "Evangelicals and Catholics: The old edginess fading"

Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics -- the nation's two largest religious blocs -- have a relationship that's been marked in the past by hostility and tension.

But now, almost 500 years after Martin Luther, one of the top U.S. evangelical thinkers has co-authored a book that finds an increasingly warm relationship between Catholics and evangelicals.

At the end:

Yet both Noll and Shea believe the evangelicals are much closer to Catholicism on central Christian teachings than more liberal Protestants.

So, does that mean the Reformation is over? Noll summarizes: "The answer is not yes, but it's moving in the direction of yes."

See also Richard John Neuhas' and Charles Colson's efforts in dialogue at
Evangelicals & Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium

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