The lion and the lamb : evangelicals and Catholics in America / William M. Shea.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shea, William M., 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Relations--Evangelicalism.

Catholic Church.

Evangelicalism--Relations--Catholic Church.

Evangelicalism.

United States--Church history.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 402 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

PART I: The Landscape of a Quarrel

1. Terminology, Myth, and Tribes

2. The Perils of Modernity

3. Nativism and Politics

PART II: Paul Speaks of Peter

4. Roots

5. The National Protest: Beginning in the Middle

6. Three Presbyterians and Three Congregationalists

7. Hard Evangelicals and the Apostate Church

8. Soft Evangelicals and the Heretical Church

PART III: Peter Speaks of Paul

9. The Nineteenth-Century Bishops and Anti-Catholicism

10. John Hughes and Kirwan in New York

11. James Gibbons of Baltimore

12. What Have Catholic Theologians Made of Biblical Christianity?

13. Bishops Again and the Vatican

14. Conclusion: The Lion and the Lamb

Notes

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-378) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780198032021

0198032021

0-19-983523-3

0-19-803202-1

0-19-988153-7

1-4237-2001-6

1-280-55879-2

9786610558797

9781423720016

OCLC:

922952579