We are very excited for the first of our Soundings Seminars this Wednesday night in Falls Church. Here are some resources we suggest regarding your exploration on Wednesday’s discussions:
Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Catholicism, Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrum
Is the Reformation over? Catholics and Protestants at the Turn of the Millennia, Geoffrey Wainwright
The Joy of the Gospel, Pope Francis
Ut Unum Sint (that they may be one), Pope John Paul II
The Spirit and Forms of Protestantism, Louis Buyer
Evangelical Catholicism, George Weigel
Christian Basics, John Stott and Knowing God, J.I. Packer
Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1994
Mere Christianity by CS Lewis and More Christianity by Dwight Longenecker
A Handbook of Spiritual Ecumenism, Cardinal Walter Kaspar
“Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium”
In 1997, we bore common witness to “The Gift of Salvation,” underscoring God’s unmerited justification of sinners because of the redeeming work of Jesus Christ, true God and true man, and our only hope of salvation. In our third statement, “Your Word is Truth” (2002), we affirmed a convergence in our understanding of the transmission of God’s saving Word through Holy Scripture and tradition, which is the lived experience of the community of faith under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In 2003, we addressed “The Communion of Saints,” in which we confessed that our communion with Christ means that we are in a certain, albeit imperfect, communion with one another in his body, the Church. “The Call to Holiness” in 2005 lifted up our common participation in the life-transforming love of God”Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The statement “That They May Have Life” (2006) set forth the Christian mandate, based on biblical authority and clear reason, for the protection of innocent human life from conception to natural death. In 2009 we turned our attention to the Virgin Mary in “Do Whatever He Tells You” as an example of God’s saving grace, the divinely chosen mother of our Lord and a model of discipleship.
“Where Catholics and Protestants Agree” Timothy George and Matthew Levering talk at Q
Bills favorites on ‘the Catholic soul’–Father Elijah by Michael O’Brien, Come Be My Light by Mother Teresa, He Leadeth Me by Walter Ciszek