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April 10, 2005
Signs of the Reformation's Success?
Christian History & Biography on the Christianity Today site has an interesting interview with Timothy George, Dean of the Beeson Divinity School, regarding John Paul the Great and the gradual closing of the gap between Protestants and Catholics since the late 1890s (dating from Dwight Moody, who, a surprise to me, was quite open to Catholics).
Interesting quote:
Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom have just written a book called Is The Reformation Over? In my endorsement I said, "The Reformation is over only in the sense that to some extent it has succeeded." Which is to say that Roman Catholicism has taken on many, but not all, of the main emphases that come out of Luther. There's a clear movement in that direction, and I think evangelicals can celebrate that and see our commonalities.
Not sure that Catholics would quite agree with the exact language of that thought, but I hope we can all of us, Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox, agree on this: That which unites us is stronger and more important than that which divides us.
Posted by Mark at April 10, 2005 09:41 PM