From The Living Church- Christopher Wells
This is the last installment proper of the present series, and is meant to explicate, in terms of contemporary ecclesial identities and locations, something of the “heart” of Catholicism. We tend to think of evangelicalism as inherently Protestant, and perhaps on that count alone opposed to whatever Catholicism must be. To be sure, in the last 200 or so years, many self-nominated evangelicals and Catholics have borne out this sort of an oppositional stance in their theology and in their relations (or lack thereof) with one another.
As recently as the mid-1990s, American evangelical leaders were castigated by their confreres for consorting with Roman Catholics in the Evangelicals and Catholics Together initiative of Richard John Neuhaus and Charles Colson that has continued to produce remarkable consensus statements on longstanding points of disagreement (mission, justification, Scripture and tradition, the communion of saints, Mary) between Christians in the modern West. And Roman Catholic authorities have sometimes returned the favor, as in occasional dismissals of evangelical groups as intrusive and unwelcome “sects” that lack any ecclesial basis or substance (notwithstanding Trinitarian baptism, plus devotion to Christ and Scripture as God’s Word).
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