Return to Rome: Confessions of an Evangelical Catholic

Short review: this is a short Catholic to Evangelical back to Catholic conversion story. I think it is useful to read books like this to both humanize the religious struggles that real people have and to understand what actually motivates people's religious thoughts. One of the most interesting parts of this was that Beckwith (a philosopher) said that he was not concerned with many of them traditional evangelical concerns about Catholicism (apocrypha, role of pope, purgatory, etc) because either the Catholic church had authority to make those decisions (and he would just accept them) or they didn't (and he wouldn't move back to Rome). This is a level of trust that is nearly unheard of in the Protestant world and makes a lot of sense. At the same time I would like to have heard more details.

I did find his discussion at the end about the problems of evangelical ‘sola scriptura' theology very good. And I pretty much agree (as a Protestant) that sola scriptura as currently popularly understood is broken. prima scriptura is a better model and much closer to the actual reformer's positions.

My full review is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/return/