86 CHURCH UNITY 



Encyclical Letters of the Roman Pontiff, 

 inviting all Protestants and Orthodox 

 Greek Christians to return to the Mother 

 of churches. 



PROTESTANT APPROACHES TOWARD 

 REUNION 



On the other side, we have no less re- 

 markable approaches toward reunion, — 

 such as the Catholic revival of the last 

 fifty years in the Church of England, and 

 more recently in the Church of Scotland; 

 the general Protestant reaction, as shown 

 in all denominations by a growing obser- 

 vance of the church year, a recovery of 

 portions of the Catholic liturgy, and a 

 renewed appreciation of church history 

 and Christian antiquity. We have also 

 an increasing association of Protestants 

 with Catholics in many humanitarian and 

 Christian movements. When it is added 

 that in our own country the tAVO have 

 been brought under social fusion within 

 a democratic environment, already en- 

 gendering a Catholic type of Christianity 

 in Protestantism, and a Protestant type 

 of intelligence and freedom in Catholi- 

 cism, the dream of reunion will not seem 



