Catholics and Evangelicals : Do They Share a Common Future?

by Rausch, Thomas P.; Mouw, Richard J.

• ISBN13: 9780830815661
• ISBN10: 083081566X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Intervarsity Pr

Summary

An unusual conversation is taking place at the turn of a new millennium. Some Catholics and evangelicals in North America are talking amicably with one another about what they share, where they differ and how they might engage in a common mission within a post-Christian and postmodern society.

This book seeks to move that conversation forward. Thomas P. Rausch and Cecil M. Robeck Jr. explore and assess how the conversation has progressed. Robert L. Wilken and Gerald Bray view the doctrine of salvation historically from within early Christian thought and then from an evangelical point of view. Avery Dulles and Timothy George examine the doctrine of the church in terms of ministry and sacraments and the nature of evangelical ecclesiology. Finally, evangelical missionary David E. Bjork tells his unusual story of ministering within the structure of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

This is a book for those who want to get in on one of the most important theological conversations taking place today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Foreword	1	(4)
Richard J. Mouw
Introduction	5	(8)
Thomas P. Rausch
Evangelicals and Catholics Together	13	(24)
Cecil M. Robeck, Jr.
Catholic-Evangelical Relations: Signs of Progress	37	(19)
Thomas P. Rausch
Salvation in Early Christian Thought	56	(21)
Robert Louis Wilken
Evangelicals, Salvation, and Church History	77	(24)
Gerald Bray
Church, Ministry, and Sacraments in Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue	101	(21)
Avery Dulles
Toward an Evangelical Ecclesiology	122	(27)
Timothy George
When Obedience Leads Us into the Unknown	149	(27)
David E. Bjork
Afterword	171	(5)
Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy
Contributors	176