Given our discussion(s) about this blog (among other things!), Collin Hansen’s article at Christianity Today, posted this morning, caught my attention: “Not All Evangelicals and Catholics Together.” Hansen documents some of the conflicts between Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, and how it has developed over the past 10 years or so.
UPDATE: If you click through to Hansen’s article, you will find that he discusses a recent controversy at George Washington University regarding the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and its cooperation with Roman Catholics, so you will also want to check out this response from InterVarsity president Alec Hill (HT: Justin Taylor).
October 29th, 2009 | 6:10 pm | #1
Justification, the word, should be stricken from the theological vocabulary of English speaking, common law governed Christians – whether or not they are Protestant or Catholic. I am reworking a position paper on this idea now. I am strongly convinced of the necessity of this shift. Keep it for its epistemological sense. As for the make/declare distinction, what about the performative contstative as a possible avenue of exploration or investigation.
Also, on another note, isn’t the Trinity the most ecumenical doctrine ever? That is, don’t we all defer to orthodox statements about the Godhead? Does any evangelical position attempt to distinguish Protestant and Catholic views? Why is the Trinity (as a doctrine) not in issue among Catholic and Protestant theologians? It is a good reason? Perhaps I am simply ignorant of the disputes. Any thoughts?