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Two words that the modern ear hears as a contradiction. Caleb Williams argues they are a definition.
Evangelical — centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ crucified and risen. Catholic — according to the whole, the universal, creedal, sacramental faith handed down by the apostles. Held together, they describe not a new movement but an old one: the Church that the Reformers believed they were recovering, and the Church that still confesses the Nicene Creed today in Rome, in Constantinople, in Wittenberg, and wherever the ancient faith is rightly handed on.
Across four parts and twenty-one chapters, Caleb Williams traces the story from the undivided Church through the Great Schism, the Reformation, and the splintering of American Protestantism into dispensationalism, the charismatic movement, and churches without history. The book ends not with a demand that anyone change rooms — but with a hope: recognition. That Christians long separated might look across the divide and see family.
Drawing on his work as a biblical archaeologist, Caleb Williams includes "Scripture & Stone" reflections that connect the argument to the physical evidence left behind by the early Church.
For anyone who has ever wondered where their church came from — and whether it remembers.
413 pages. First edition, 2026.
Two words that the modern ear hears as a contradiction. Caleb Williams argues they are a definition.
Evangelical — centered on the gospel of Jesus Christ crucified and risen. Catholic — according to the whole, the universal, creedal, sacramental faith handed down by the apostles. Held together, they describe not a new movement but an old one: the Church that the Reformers believed they were recovering, and the Church that still confesses the Nicene Creed today in Rome, in Constantinople, in Wittenberg, and wherever the ancient faith is rightly handed on.
Across four parts and twenty-one chapters, Caleb Williams traces the story from the undivided Church through the Great Schism, the Reformation, and the splintering of American Protestantism into dispensationalism, the charismatic movement, and churches without history. The book ends not with a demand that anyone change rooms — but with a hope: recognition. That Christians long separated might look across the divide and see family.
Drawing on his work as a biblical archaeologist, Caleb Williams includes "Scripture & Stone" reflections that connect the argument to the physical evidence left behind by the early Church.
For anyone who has ever wondered where their church came from — and whether it remembers.
413 pages. First edition, 2026.