USCC News Release: Baptist/Roman Catholic Scholars Issue An Agreed Upon Statement (1989)

USCC News Release: Baptist/Roman Catholic Scholars Issue An Agreed Upon Statement by William Ryan, June 30, 1989

Despite different vocabularies used in explaining beliefs, and despite very real differences which remain, Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist scholars share a basic understanding of what it means to be "a follower of Jesus Christ by the grace of God."

This conclusion is reached in An Agreed Statement from the Southern Baptist/Roman Catholic Scholars' Conversations, a summary statement of discussions occurring over the past two decades whose purpose was "to make one another better aware of what each believed."

Unlike other ecumenical dialogues, the Agreed Statement is not considered an official conclusion referred to church leadership, but the results of scholars' findings. Aware that, at the local level, much of what is said would probably be a surprise and in some cases contradicted, the twenty five scholars have made the statement the centerpiece of a book that examines the main points of the statement in greater detail.

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