The Stained Glass Curtain: Crossing the Evangelical-Catholic Divide to Find Our Common Heritage

by Dimitri Sala

Overview

Some Evangelicals claim Catholicism preaches another gospel. But many Catholics don’t know their official teachings! Thus, in a post-Iron Curtain era, Christians still maintain a “Stained Glass Curtain” of mutual suspicion. This book demonstrates by authoritative Catholic sources that informed Catholics and Bible-believing Evangelicals do not differ over the gospel.

The relationship between Catholics and Evangelicals is a story of power plays and politics, misunderstandings and bitterness. Battle lines from past wars--sometimes literal wars--are still drawn, even if only in the realm of ideas and beliefs. This is the inherited filter through which each group is taught to view the other.

This filter has become an invisible self-defeating barrier, a “stained glass curtain” of mutual suspicion between groups of Christians who have much more in common than they realize.

In The Stained Glass Curtain, Father Dimitri Sala demonstrates that when it comes to the basic message of salvation and the work of the Holy Spirit, official Catholic teaching and the preaching of Evangelicals do not differ. Combining his own testimony, authoritative Catholic sources, and passages from the Bible, he boldly invites you to learn the truth and embrace the reality of our common heritage.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662879760
Publisher:	Xulon Press
Publication date:	06/19/2024
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

Table of Contents

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

1 The Same Fishbowl

2 The Sources

3 The First Proclamation

4 The Vision

5 The Problem

6 The Solution

7 The Appeal

8 The Reality of the Gospel

9 The Re-Evangelization

10 The Fishbowl Revisited

Epilogue: The Invitation

Note

 

Interviews

The relationship between Catholics and Evangelicals is a story of power plays and politics, misunderstandings and bitterness. Battle lines from past wars--sometimes literal wars--are still drawn, even if only in the realm of ideas and beliefs. This is the inherited filter through which each group is taught to view the other. And this filter has become an invisible self-defeating barrier; thus, in a post-Iron Curtain era, Christians still maintain a "Stained Glass Curtain" of mutual suspicion and mistrust.

Addressing the claim that Catholicism preaches another gospel, Father Dimitri Sala demonstrates inThe Stained Glass Curtain that many -- even Catholics -- don't know official Catholic teachings! When it comes to the basic message of salvation, that teaching, and the preaching of Evangelicals, do not differ. Combining his own testimony, authoritative Catholic sources, and passages from the Bible, he boldly invites you to learn the truth and embrace the reality of our common heritage.

Look for the Spanish edition of this book! La Cortina de Vitrales: Penetremos la División entre Evangélicos y Católicos para Encontrar Nuestro Patrimonio Común has now been released by Casa Creación.