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This article gives an overview of the recent history of the relationship between the European Baptist Federation (EBF) and the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE), which is highly important for overcoming the schism of Protestantism. Starting in 1973 with the Leuenberg Agreement, the CPCE now includes nearly every Lutheran, Reformed, and United church in Europe, as well as important pre-Reformation churches and seven European Methodist churches. The EBF, which represents the largest free church in Europe, is not yet included, primarily because Baptists do not recognize the baptism of infants. Nevertheless, the dialogues since 1999 have shown that there is so much common ground between the two sides that they are earnestly seeking to find a binding cooperation., Introduction The Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) at its Sixth General Assembly, September 12-18, 2006, in Budapest, decided that it wanted 'a closer cooperation' with the European Baptist [...]

Abstract This paper examines sectarianism in the small rural locality of Ganmain. Historians who have dealt with sectarianism generally have been inclined to focus on nineteenth-century Protestant and Catholic relations, [...]

Astute as ever, my friend Robert Louis Wilken, the distinguished church historian, is impressed by 'We Hold These Truths,' but he also admits to having some problems with the declaration [...]

By now, nearly everyone has heard the statistics. From the end of Vatican II in 1965 to the present, the American Catholic Church has experienced dramatic drops in attendance at [...]

Southern Baptists failed to form religious alliances with northern evangelicals until the 1980s, mainly as a result of cultural rather than theological differences. The Southern Baptists and northern evangelicals had different enemies, as moderates among the Southern Baptists focused on threats from conservatives, while the northern evangelicals were opposed to theological liberals. The groups also differed according to Ernst Troeltsch's distinction between the sect-type and church-type of religious organization, and by H. Richard Niebuhr's model of five types of approaches to Christ in relation to culture.