We are living in an age of unprecedented ecumenical acceleration.
Optimism is at an all-time high with regard to the religious ferment of today.
Not so long ago, for instance, Christianity Today quoted John A. McKay as saying that the future of Christendom may well lie with a reformed Catholicism and a mature Pentecostalism. However, the responsibility of assessing the current religious scene, amid its diversity, must not be evaded. It is not our intention to magnify excesses or successes but to arrive at the fundamental drift of the religious ferment. Surely one of the basic aspects of any movement or conglomerate of movements is the place of the Bible. It behooves us to inquire into these assertions.