Joseph Adam Lortz Books

Joseph Lortz was a Roman Catholic church historian, highly regarded as a scholar of the Reformation and an ecumenist. Beginning in the 1940s, Lortz made his ecumenical views accessible to general readers and scholars alike, aiming to foster reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants. His writings significantly influenced the thinking that manifested in the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis Redintegratio, thus contributing to inter-church dialogue.