Baptists & Catholics Together?

Making Up Is Hard to Do

Curtis W. Freeman January 12, 2009 - 11:36am

A few years ago I stood in front of a class of divinity students and announced that a prominent religious pundit had recently made the following statement: “I’ve got more in common with Pope John Paul II than I do with Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton.” Then I asked, “Was it (a) Stanley Hauerwas, (b) Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, (c) Richard John Neuhaus, or (d) Richard Land?”

The class rightly suspected this was a setup, yet most of the students...

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Curtis W. Freeman is Research Professor of Theology and Director of the Baptist House of Studies at Duke University Divinity School.