In his lecture, Ecumenism Without Compromise, Catholic scholar Peter Kreeft asks whether ecumenism is possible, especially between Catholics and Protestants.
As a born and bred Catholic turned Evangelical turned Charismatic...turned somewhere in between all three -- Kreeft's comments were some of the most clarifying and insightful I'd heard on unity in the Church.
I'd highly recommend listening to this twenty-minute lecture:
http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/03_ecumenism.htm
Let me know when you do. Catholic or Protestant or otherwise, I'd love to know your thoughts.
-EC
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Kreeft is a fascinating guy...raised Evangelical, he went to college at a citadel of Evangelical Protestant intellectual thought (Calvin College), then later "converted" to Catholicism.
Now he uses the following adjectives to describe himself: Catholic, traditional, charismatic, and conservative.
There are so many quotable quotes in his little speech...I'd list a few but, frankly, taken out of context they are just offensive to too many people.
One of my all-time favorite quotes on "denominationalism" (the opposite of "ecumenism") comes from Pastor Steve Hickey at Church at the Gate in South Dakota:
"Denominationalism is a condom on the Kingdom."
Amen and amen.
EC, you've always been a Catholic (as I've always been a Lutheran), but Kreeft offers some ideas on why you might have shifted into more Evangelical and Charismatic Christian life.
BC
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