Proclaiming Jesus Christ: Catholic and Evangelical Perspectives on Evangelization is the collected essays and consensus statements of the third round of the National Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue. In 2024, the National Evangelical-Catholic Dialogue completed its two-year round of discussion on evangelization at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Sessions were held each year on the following topics:
- In 2023, the dialogue met twice, discussing the importance of doctrine for evangelization and the relationship between evangelization and salvation.
- In 2024, the dialogue discussed evangelization and culture.
At each of the annual meetings, members presented background papers that formed the basis of that meeting’s discussion and became starting points for constructing a common statement. These common statements and background papers make up this book. The members of the dialogue hope this book will provide a fruitful starting point for future conversations between evangelicals and Catholics.
The Catholic essays begin with the contributions of Evangelical theologians Gregg Allison and M. William Ury and Catholic theologians Daniel Keating and Christian Washburn, who examine the nature of evangelization doctrine within their traditions (Spring 2023). Next, Evangelicals Alex Mayfield and Dennis Jowers, and Catholics Michael Sirilla and Mary Healy examine evangelization and its relationship to salvation (Fall 2023). Finally, Evangelicals Dean Erickson and Steven Hoskins and Catholics Daniel Keating and William Stevenson discuss the role of culture in evangelization (2024).
Steven Hoskins, Ph.D. is professor of Church history at Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, TN, where he has served on the faculty the past 30 years. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene and the founding President of the Wesleyan Historical Society. His writings have appeared in the Wesleyan Theological Journal, Gottesdienst, and, most recently, The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism.
Christian D. Washburn, Ph.D., is professor of dogmatic theology at The Saint Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He completed his Ph.D. in Church History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His articles have appeared in journals such as Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum, The Thomist, Pro Ecclesia, Nova et Vetera, and Gregorianum. He was appointed by the Vatican to the International Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity and by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to the National Catholic-Reformed Dialogue, the National Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue, and the National Catholic-Lutheran Dialogue.