The idea that Evangelicals can make a real contribution to Catholicism is not simply an Evangelical impertinence insulting to Catholic sensibilities. Even Evangelical converts to Catholicism – often the most hard-core of Catholics – can welcome Evangelical outreach. For instance, Dwight Longenecker – once a Bob Jones Fundamentalist, then an Anglican vicar before finally ending up in the Catholic camp – writes, “I stand here calling myself an evangelical Catholic. I value, and thank God for, the Evangelical customs and traditions in which I was brought up. I want ordinary Catholics to become more aware of the riches of that Evangelical tradition.” (Longenecker 2003, p. 17)
Source: Paul Miller - Footnote 3 of "Evangelicals Cooperatively Evangelising & Discipling with Catholics in Faithfulness to Evangelical Distinctives", by Paul Miller
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