Challenging Catholics: A Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue
Dwight Longenecker & John MartinPaternoster, 2001 £? (1-84227-096-6)
We don’t burn each other any more. We are terribly polite and try to respect one another’s positions. And it is very fashionable for evangelicals to have catholic spiritual directors. But we also rarely engaged in honest debate about the issues that divide. All the things you’d hope to be discussed are found here: the Bible, the Pope, Mary, transubstantiation, purgatory, praying to the saints and more.
It’s humorous, good natured and very informative, yet a debate between Anglo-Catholics and Roman Catholics would perhaps reveal some more telling theological differences which are already forcing their way on to the Christian agenda. Both these authors come from the zealous and largely traditional factions of their denominations which give them a great deal in common.
Church Times
