Martin Luther: Prophet to the Church Catholic
Overview
Written in the five-hundredth year after the birth of Luther, James Atkinson argues that the time is ripe for a completion of Luther’s work, a fulfillment of Reformation goals—a reunified, truly catholic Church. In this provocative text, he contends that changes in Roman Catholic theology since the sixteenth century have brought it very nearly to the point that Luther wished it to attain. He goes on to argue that the crucially important reforms initiated by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 indicate a new spirit of ecumenical openness to a rapprochement with the separated brethren of the Protestant denominations. The first part of this book offers a brief historical survey of Catholic perspectives on Luther from 1517 to the present. In the second, Atkinson delves more deeply into the main points of doctrinal contention between Catholics and Protestants, and suggests that the gap between the two is no longer so large as to preclude its being bridged in a spirit of fellowship in faith.
- Title: Martin Luther: Prophet to the Church Catholic
- Author: James Atkinson
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Luther, Martin, 1483-1546; Christian union
- ISBNs: 9781592449514, 1592449514
- Resource ID: LLS:MRTNLTHRCHCTHLC
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
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