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EVANGELICALS AND THE
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
Written By
S. R. Shearer
Large numbers of evangelicals including Pat Robertson, founder of
the Christian Coalition and president of the Christian Broadcasting
Network; Charles Colson, head of the International Prison Fellowship
Ministry; Steve Sheldon, director of the Traditional Values Coalition;
Dr. Richard Land and Dr. Larry Lewis, officers of the Southern Baptist
Convention; and a great deal of other prominent evangelicals joined
with Roman Catholic leaders to endorse a declaration put together by
the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a Catholic theologian who heads the Institute
on Religion and Public Life in Manhattan.
The document is entitled "Evangelicals and Catholics Together:
The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium;" the declaration's
aim is to promote the growing ties among the nation's largest and most
politically active religious groups; its purpose is to encourage continued
Christian political activism aimed at "taking the country back
for Christ and the church."
Pat Robertson, in approving the document, believes that the moral
crisis facing the nation today mandates this kind of closer cooperation.
The document reads in part, "As evangelicals and Catholics, we
dare not, by needless and loveless conflict between ourselves, give
aid and comfort to the enemies (read, the secular-humanists, the ACLU,
B'nai Brith, etc. - editor) of the cause of Christ."
The Rev. David Scoates, a Methodist, concurs; he said, "I think
it is about time we (all begin to) work together, particularly against
evil influences in our society."[2] Steve Sheldon, the political
director for the Traditional Values Coalition, added, "We are very
excited about the programs that we can accomplish together;" he
continued, "We hope to work together (with Catholics) to further
our common goals."
Mark Noll, a historian at Wheaton College, agrees; he further notes
the implications of all this: that as evangelicals begin to
work more closely with Catholics to effect political change
in the country, they must stop proselytizing Catholics and thinking
of them as "unsaved;" that evangelicals must no longer
"... consider Catholics as ogres or anti-Christs."
He continues, "In the best American fashion, activism has
led to reflection ..." [Maybe, the better word is "compromise"
- editor]
Neuhaus, however, exalts in this kind of thinking; he believes that
the Catholic Church must now "seize the moment" and take advantage
of evangelicalism's new attitude towards cooperation; he writes, "This
is the moment in which the Roman Catholic Church can and should be the
lead church ... This can and should also be the moment in which the
Roman Catholic Church in the United States assumes its rightful role
in the culture-forming task of constructing a religiously informed public
philosophy for the American experiment in ordered liberty."[4 ]Ordered
liberty? - maybe someone should ask Neuhaus what he means by that.
The Rev. Gregory Coiro of the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles
said that the statement is the "fruit of the time in which we live."[5]
Yes, indeed, it is the fruit of the time in which we live! Political
activism has evidently become more important to evangelicals than the
Gospel. "The times, they are 'a changing'!" - and along with
it, countless numbers of evangelicals too.
Written By S. R. Shearer
Antipas Ministries
- Dale Vargas, Sacramento Bee, March 30, 1994, pg. A-16.
- Ibid., pg. A-16.
- Ibid., pg. A-16.
- Reported in Liberty Express, November, 1994, pg. 2.
- Ibid., pg. 3
- Op. Cit., Vargas, pg. A-16.
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"The Third World
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the American New World Order System" and "The
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