What does evangelical mean?
by David Mills – November 20, 2008 Reprinted with permission from our good friends at InsideCatholic.com, the leading online journal of Catholic faith, culture, and politics. Starting today, the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) is holding its annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. This is the second meeting since the group’s then-president Francis Beckwith shocked his peers by announcing his return to the Catholic Church and resigning from the presidency, which he has already described on this site here. Last year Beckwith came to the meeting and gave a well-attended talk, and at this year’s meeting Brazos Press will be releasing his book Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic. As one of the few Catholics at last year’s meeting, I found that many people wanted to talk about Beckwith and his conversion, and every one of them was curious rather than combative. I did overhear some harsher judgments, but of the sort that ascribe someone’s errors to personality or
