The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America Hard cover - 2004
by William M. Shea
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- Title The Lion and the Lamb: Evangelicals and Catholics in America
- Author William M. Shea
- Binding Hard Cover
- Edition First Edition; F
- Condition New
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
- Date 2004-03-04
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780195139860_pod
- ISBN 9780195139860 / 0195139860
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.36 x 6.4 x 1.12 in (23.77 x 16.26 x 2.84 cm)
- Reading level 1500
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Church history, Evangelicalism - Relations - Catholic Church
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003005368
- Dewey Decimal Code 280.042
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Summary
One of the most intriguing questions in contemporary American Christianity is whether the recent warming of relations between Catholics and conservative evangelicals promises a thaw in the ice age that has lasted since the sixteenth century. American evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholicshave hated and suspected one another since colonial times. In the twentieth century, however, each community has experienced radical change, and this has led to a change in the relationship between the two. In this book William Shea examines the history of this troubled relationship and the signs of potential reconciliation. His springboard is the recent publicity given to the 1993 document Evangelicals and Catholics Together, in which several well-known figures from each camp, acting as individuals,signed a statement affirming much more common theological and social ground than any other American Catholic-evangelical group had ever done...
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To begin at the end of my story, one of the more intriguing questions in contemporary American Christianity is whether the current warming of relations between Catholics and conservative evangelicals promises a thaw in the ice age in place since the sixteenth century.
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Citations
- Choice, 12/01/2004, Page 680
- Christian Century, 10/19/2004, Page 33
