Evangelical Catholicism: The church that never left and the churches that did.

One faith. One Church. Separated not by truth, but by time.Evangelical Catholicism is not a contradiction. It is a rediscovery.From the earliest centuries of the Church to the Reformation and beyond, this book traces the true history of Christianity. It reveals how the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church remained faithful while many branches drifted far from her foundation.With clarity, conviction, and a pastoral heart, Rev. Dr. Caleb Williams explores the creeds, the fathers, and the Reformers to show that Evangelical Catholicism is not a new movement. It is the ancient path that never left.He walks through the doctrines that have divided Christians for five centuries: the authority of Scripture, justification, the Lord's Supper, baptism, the sacraments, the office of the ministry, and the communion of saints. At every turn he shows that the Lutheran confessions were never an attempt to invent a new church. They were a defense of the old one.This is a book for the confessional Christian who wants to understand his own heritage more deeply. It is a book for the Roman Catholic or Orthodox reader who assumes the Reformation threw out the historic faith. And it is a book for the mainline Protestant who has never been told that the church of the Reformation is older, deeper, and more catholic than he was led to believe.This is a call to return. Not to Rome. Not to a brand. But to the Church that Jesus built. Read more