The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950–2015: Volume Six

The Roman Catholic Church

James Leo Garrett Jr., Wyman Lewis Richardson, Eugene A. Curry, Wyman Lewis Richardson, Eugene A. Curry

• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781532607448
  9781532607462
• eBook ISBN:
  9781532607455
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Denominations

James Leo Garrett Jr. has been called "the last of the gentlemen theologians" and "the dean of Southern Baptist theologians." In The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett Jr., 1950-2015, the reader will find a truly dazzling collection of works that clearly evince the meticulous scholarship, the even-handed treatment, the biblical fidelity, the wide historical breadth, and the honest sincerity that have made the work and person of James Leo Garrett Jr. so esteemed and revered among so many for so long. Volume 6 contains Garrett's writings on Roman Catholicism, writings that arise from his own careful study of and interactions with the Catholic Church. Spanning sixty-five years and touching on topics from Baptist history, theology, ecclesiology, church history and biography, religious liberty, Roman Catholicism, and the Christian life, The Collected Writings of James Leo Garrett, Jr., 1950-2015 will inform and inspire readers regardless of their religious or denominational affiliations.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Editors’ Introduction
• Chapter 1: “Why Not Marry a Catholic?” (1950)
• Chapter 2: “Outside the Church No Salvation” (1958)
• Chapter 3: “Basic Theological Differences” (1960)
• Chapter 4: “Man, Sin, and Redemption” (1960)
• Chapter 5: “Letter to Editor: Says Catholic Priest Was Wrong on Two Points” (1960
• Chapter 6: “Retrospect: Thirteen Milestones in Catholic Education in the United States” (1962)
• Chapter 7: “The New Confrontation” (1963)
• Chapter 8: “Polemic, Conversion, and/or Dialogue: Baptist Postures Toward the Roman Catholic Church” (1963)
• Chapter 9: Protestant-Catholic Dialogue: A Baptist View (1964)
• Chapter 10: Baptists and Roman Catholicism (1965)
• Chapter 11: Trends in Roman Catholicism:What Changes are Occurring in the Doctrines and Practices of Roman Catholicism? (1969)
• Chapter 12: “The Shifting Foci of the Protestant-Roman Catholic Confrontation: Peter, Mary, and the Sacraments” (1971)
• Chapter 13: Reinhold Niebuhr on Roman Catholicism (1972)
• Chapter 14: “John A. Mackay on the Roman Catholic Church” (1972)
• Chapter 15: “A Baptist Reflection on John Paul II” (2004)
• Chapter 16: “Biden and Catholics” (2012)
• Chapter 17: “From Benedict XVI to Francis” (2013)
• Bibliography