Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION
Protestant Introduction -- pg.3
1. SCRIPTURE AND TRADITION, Oscar Cullmann -- pg.7
Roman Catholic Introduction -- pg.35
2. SCRIPTURE, TRADITION, AND THE Church: An ECUMENICAL PROBLEM, Josef Rupert Geiselmann -- pg.39
PART TWO THE BIBLE: HERMENEUTICS
Protestant Introduction -- pg.75
3. THE TASK OF NEW TESTAMENT SCHOLARSHIP FOR THE CHURCH’S PROCLAMATION TODAY, Ernst Fuchs -- pg.79
4. THE EVOLUTION OF DOGMA, A. A. van Ruler -- pg.89
Roman Catholic Introduction -- pg.107
5. THE GOSPELS AS SALVATION HISTORY, David Michael Stanley, S.J. -- pg.111
PART THREE THE CHURCH
Protestant Introduction -- pg.149
6. THE CONCEPT OF THE CHURCH, Karl Barth -- pg.153
Roman Catholic Introduction -- pg.173
7. CATHOLIC ECCLESIOLOGY IN OUR TIME, Gustave Weigel, SJ. -- pg.177
PART FOUR THE SACRAMENTS
Protestant introduction -- pg.195
8. Toward a Renewal of the Doctrine of Transubstantiation, Max Thurian -- pg.197
9. The REAL PRESENCE, Max Thurian -- pg.203
10. Reformation, Preaching, and EX Орere Ореrato, Heiko А. Оbermann -- pg.223
Roman Catholic Introduction -- pg.241
11. The Sacraments: An Encounter with God, E. R. Schillebeeckx, O.P. -- pg.245
PART FIVE JUSTIFICATION
Protestant Introduction -- pg.279
12. JUSTIFICATION, T. F. Torrance -- pg.283
Roman Catholic Introduction -- pg.307
13. JUSTIFICATION and Sanctification According to the New Testament, Hans Kung -- pg.309

For the first time since the fragmentation of Christianity Christians are recognising their essential fellowship. Suspicion and hatred are being replaced by trust and friendship, and we are seriously considering the prospects for reunion. There exist considerable and important doctrinal differences between the Christians of the Roman com¬munion and those of other communions but these are frequently exaggerated by deep misunderstandings, not merely of one another’s position but often of one’s own.
The editors of this book, have gathered together some of the finest writing to be found among both Protestant and Catholic theologians. The essays each deal with something central to Christian belief and the results are quite staggering. The writings of Father Geiselman and of Oscar Cullmann on Scripture will open the eyes of many of us in this country to the way in which we have an immense amount to learn both about our own understanding of scripture and from that of the great Protestant scholars. Karl Barth has an international reputation, what he has to say again is of immense value to Protestants and Romans alike. It is complemented by an essay by the young German theologian, Hans Kung. There are articles about Christ, the Church, the Sacraments and. two different aspects of Scripture. All these articles are written with a clarity and force only to be found among the great thinkers, either Catholic or Protestant.
Differences are not resolved in this book, but as a result of
what is said intelligent and charitable, conversation is possible.