Catholics, evangelicals discuss nature of authority

Published: 2007-01-09

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue studied the nature of authority, especially in Scripture, at a three-day meeting last October in St. Paul, Minn. Father Michael J. Keating, a professor of Catholic studies at the University of St. Thomas, which hosted the meeting, and Dennis W. Jowers, a theology professor at Faith Seminary in Tacoma, Wash., presented major papers on the topic from Catholic and evangelical perspectives. A press release reporting on the meeting was issued Jan. 4 by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington. In his presentation Father Keating focused on the idea of development of a historically based religion and discussed development in Scripture itself and in early Christianity. Jowers focused on the doctrine of the formal and material sufficiency of Scripture, the teaching that all things necessary for life and salvation are taught in the Bible.

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