{"id":3966,"date":"2009-04-03T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T06:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blog\/arkiv\/1788"},"modified":"2012-02-13T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T09:53:18","slug":"stadig-tettere-relasjoner-mellom-katolikker-og-evangelikale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2009\/04\/stadig-tettere-relasjoner-mellom-katolikker-og-evangelikale\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadig tettere relasjoner mellom katolikker og evangelikale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mange katolikker har merka at konservative protestanter (i USA ofte kalt ‘evangelikale’) de siste \u00e5r har blitt mer og mer vennlige mot oss katolikker. Det kommer bl.a. av at de ser at vi katolikker st\u00e5r fast p\u00e5 tradisjonelle kristne standpunkter p\u00e5 mange omr\u00e5der, men ogs\u00e5 fordi noen har jobba aktivt for ei tiln\u00e6rming mellom disse to gruppene. En person som gjorde akkurat dette, var Richard John Neuhaus, som d\u00f8de 8. januar i \u00e5r. First Things<\/a> (som han var redakt\u00f8r for siden starten i 1990) brukte mesteparten av aprilnummeret til \u00e5 ‘skrive hans pris’. Der skriver bl.a. Charles Colson om Neuhaus’ arbeid for ‘Catholics and Evangelicals Together’ – som jeg ogs\u00e5 har skrevet om HER<\/a>.<\/p>\n

… it was his decision to enter the priesthood\u2014combined with his Lutheran past\u2014that prepared him for founding Evangelicals and Catholics Together. As my friend Timothy George wrote about Fr. Richard recently in Christianity Today: \u201cOnly a thinker so well grounded in the Reformation traditions could be an honest broker in bringing faithful evangelicals and believing Catholics to recognize the common source of their life together in Jesus Christ, the Holy Scriptures, and the great tradition of living faith through the centuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, without Richard\u2019s influence and leadership, we never could have pulled together Catholic and evangelical leaders to openly acknowledge our theological differences, affirm the things we held in common, and confidently assert the Christian worldview we shared. Here was true ecumenism: not ecumenism in the usual sense of reducing things to the lowest common denominator, but rather an open, frank, discussion about our differences and commonalities. All, as Fr. Richard so often insisted, in pursuit of the truth.<\/p>\n

It was also an ecumenism that wasn\u2019t warmly received by some in both evangelical and Catholic circles. In 1994, Fr. Richard and I held a press conference in New York during Holy Week to announce a joint statement of the truth we could affirm together. To our surprise, we made headlines: \u201cEvangelicals and Catholics to Unite.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a backlash in the evangelical ranks like nothing I had seen before. Some donors to Prison Fellowship withdrew their support. Some of my best friends in the evangelical movement, respected theologians, chastised me for holding anything in common with Rome. It was the evangelical equivalent of an Inquisition. But I couldn\u2019t back down. I believed deeply in God\u2019s leading of Evangelicals and Catholics Together. And I knew Fr. Richard would stand with me and stand by his convictions.<\/p>\n

In 1997, after two years of discussions in which Edward Idris Cardinal Cassidy from the Vatican participated, Evangelicals and Catholics Together issued its most important paper: \u201cThe Gift of Salvation.\u201d And in it, as evangelicals and Catholics together, we agreed to the following statement. \u201cWe agree that justification is not earned by any good works or merits of our own; it is entirely God\u2019s gift . . . Faith is not merely intellectual assent but an act of the whole person, involving the mind, the will, and the affections, issuing in a changed life. We understand that what we here affirm is in agreement with what the Reformation traditions have meant by justification by faith alone ( sola fide).\u201d It was a remarkable moment. Cardinal Cassidy said that even though ours was an informal group, not having official Church recognition, the \u201cThe Gift of Salvation\u201d was so thoughtfully written that he would use it as a teaching paper in Rome. <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mange katolikker har merka at konservative protestanter (i USA ofte kalt ‘evangelikale’) de siste \u00e5r har blitt mer og mer vennlige mot oss katolikker. Det kommer bl.a. av at de ser at vi katolikker st\u00e5r fast p\u00e5 tradisjonelle kristne standpunkter p\u00e5 mange omr\u00e5der, men ogs\u00e5 fordi noen har jobba aktivt for ei tiln\u00e6rming mellom disse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okumenikk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}