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.
"Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism" (Baker) by Mark A. Noll and Carolyn Nystrom argues that not only on contemporary political issues such as abortion but also on matters of spirituality Catholics and the Protestant conservatives have ever more in common.
Summarizing the situation, Noll _ a historian at Wheaton College in Illinois _ said in an interview that he sees "quite serious differences, but not differences of life and death as they were regarded for at least four centuries."...
Dr. Steven J. Lawson | 6/23/2017
