Washington D.C., Aug 1, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The relationship between Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics has improved dramatically in the United States in recent decades, and increasingly these two groups have ever more in common both politically and spiritually.
A number of Evangelical and Catholic researchers and scholars have observed this phenomenon and written about it.
Richard Ostling of the Associated Press recently reported on these improved relations. Ostling presents a recent book by Wheaton College historian Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom, called “Is the Reformation Over? An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism.”
While there are “quite serious differences” between these two groups, Noll told Ostling in an interview, these differences are not “life and death as they were regarded for at least four centuries.”