Posted on 05/08/2014 6:19:10 AM PDT by marshmallow
(RNS) When evangelicals and Catholics set aside centuries of mutual suspicion 20 years ago, the idea was fairly simple: Even if we can’t always work together, at least let’s not work against each other. Now, two decades after the launch of the group Evangelicals and Catholics Together, relations between the two groups appear stronger than ever, forged by shared battles over abortion, same-sex marriage, religious freedom and immigration.
A new pope is finding crossover appeal among evangelicals who share Pope Francis’ emphasis on evangelism and his distaste for the fancier trappings and authoritarianism of the papacy.
“The first affirmation of Evangelicals and Catholics Together is that Jesus Christ is Lord, and there’s the source of our hope,” Catholic theologian Matthew Levering of Mundelein Seminary outside Chicago told the recent Q conference of evangelical movers and shakers in Nashville, Tenn.
“This was an anchor for when they began to discover that we share the same gospel.”
The movement was spearheaded by former Nixon aide Charles Colson and the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, founder of the ecumenical magazine First Things. Together, the two men — who have since died — held out the promise that there was more that united the two groups than divided them.
Evangelicals and Catholics teamed up in fights against abortion and gay marriage. While the U.S. Catholic bishops led the public opposition to a contraception mandate included in President Obama’s health care law, the evangelical owners of the Hobby Lobby chain took the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Earlier this year, Catholic bishops and evangelical leaders combined efforts to pressure the House to pass immigration reform measures this year. ECT officials are hoping to finalize a new statement on marriage by June, said First Things editor R.R. Reno.
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No on abortion, yes on immigration reform. They’re batting .500 so far.
CC
Why aren’t Catholics considered “evangelicals”? How do they spread The Gospel if they don’t evangelize?
That all depends on how you (and they) define "The Gospel".
I listen to Evangelical preachers, and to my Catholic priests on Sunday, and I find almost no difference in the substance of what is being preached.
Originally it was used by Reformers to self identify themselves. Today it's usage is so mushy that it really has little practical meaning.
And the Catholic church does not consider itself a "people of the book":
Yesterday saw...a forceful plea from a key papal advisor [Bishop Salvatore Fisichella, the rector of the Lateran University and President of the Pontifical Academy for Life] to reject the idea of Christianity as a “Religion of the Book”...........the big debate over Dei Verbum at the time of the council pitted what was then known as the “two-source theory,” which held that Scripture and tradition are essentially two separate streams of revelation, against the “one-source theory,” which posited that Scripture is the lone source of revelation and tradition is an elaboration of it. In effect, Dei Verbum held that Scripture and tradition are interdependent and integrally related to one another.
-- from the thread Synod: Christianity not a 'Religion of the Book'
"As we begin the work of this synodal assembly, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, let us turn our gaze to Christ, the light of the world and our only teacher," Cardinal Levada encouraged.The prelate's point was further developed when Cardinal Marc Ouellet, archbishop of Quebec, took the floor to affirm that the Word is much more than the Bible. He clarified that Christianity is not a religion of the Book.
"The Word of God means before all else God himself who speaks, who expresses in himself the divine Word that belongs to his intimate mystery," he said.
This Word, he added during his Latin-language discourse, which he delivered seated beside the Pope, speaks in a particular and also dramatic way in the history of man, especially in the election of a people, in the Mosaic law and the prophets.
-- from the thread Cardinal Says Scripture Inseparably United to Tradition
Christians are more than “people of the book” — those are Moslems. Christian belief is in the Word of God made flesh — Christ. We worship him, and burning a Bible does not entice the same reaction as burning a Koran or a Guru Granth Saheb
So you equate non-Catholics with Moslems?
Evangelists were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
From Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion)
evangelio (plural evangelioj, accusative singular evangelion, accusative plural evangeliojn)
ēvangeliō
But we are talking about the current context related to this article.
They reject sola scriptura, which is one of the major tenants of evangelicalism.
It’s just terms we use to classify people.
No, you Alex Murphy are equating non-C with Moslems
**Mundelein Seminary outside Chicago **
There was a thread about Scott Hahn going to teach there. Must be a good place.
My statement was clear to even the meanest intellect, so my apologies, but let me make it clearer
Christian belief is in the Word of God made flesh — Christ.
We are people of the Word of God, Jesus Christ
or C.Peter Wagner
"Political authorities, for the sake of the common good for which they are responsible may make the exercise of the right to immigrate subject to various juridical conditions, especially with regard to the immigrants' duties toward their country of adoption. Immigrants are obliged to respect with gratitude the material and spiritual heritage of the country that receives them, to obey its laws and to assist in carrying civic burdens." Catholic Catechism, 2241.
The American bishops have taken it upon themselves to contradict doctrine and act as though America has a moral responsibilty to tear down our border fences.
That may be the case, it’s true Catholism from Rome that is different.
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