Are We Together?: A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
Overview
In recent years, some evangelical Protestant leaders have signed statements pledging themselves to joint social action with Roman Catholics. Others have refused to participate, declaring that, in their view, the statements went too far, touching on the gospel, which remains a point of disagreement between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Many evangelical Christians have found themselves confused by the different directions taken by their leaders.
In Are We Together? A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism, R.C. Sproul takes his stand for the cardinal doctrines of Protestantism in opposition to the errors of the Roman Catholic Church. Sproul, a passionate defender of the gospel of justification by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, cites the historic statements of the Protestant Reformers and the Roman Catholic authorities, then references modern doctrinal statements to show that the Roman Catholic Church has not altered its official positions. In light of this continuing gap, he writes, efforts by some in the evangelical camp to find common ground with Rome on matters at the heart of the gospel are nothing short of untrue to biblical teaching. In Sproul’s estimation, the Reformation remains relevant.
Are We Together? is a clarion call to evangelicals to stand firm for the gospel, the precious good news of salvation as it is set forth in Scripture alone.
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- Title: Are We Together?: A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
- Author: R. C. Sproul
- Publisher: Reformation Trust
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Theology; Reformed Church › Relations--Catholic Church; Catholic Church › Relations--Reformed Church; Protestant churches › Relations--Catholic Church
- ISBNs: 9781567692822, 1567692826
- Resource ID: LLS:WS_14F8076AA12E41D8BEF08069AD510C42
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T04:02:19Z
R. C. Sproul (1939– 2017) was a respected teacher, theologian, pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries where he served as executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He taught at several colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He served as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, in Sanford, Florida. Sproul’s teaching can be heard daily on the ‘Renewing Your Mind’ radio broadcast which plays in over 40 countries.
Sproul wrote over 70 books and articles including the classic The Holiness of God and several theological articles in Tabletalk magazine.
Reviews
1 rating
Br Damien-Joseph OSB
10/21/2021
It's evident that the author hasn't even tried to understand Catholicism on its own terms, but depends on the novel interpretive frameworks of his own minority group and presents them as objective realities. Each chapter fundamentally misunderstands basic Catholic theological contexts, which the author--either ignorant of, or interested only in polemics--doesn't acknowledge or make available to his readers. This is a work of the lowest quality of scholarship, which I would hardly accept from an undergraduate student (let alone someone who is supposed to have been educated) on the basis of its unwillingness to engage with opposing ideas.