The problem for many is not so much doubt, but loss of memory. The history of Christianity is best understood as a chain of memory, and we need to reconnect some aspects of that chain. Going back to the eighteenth century, at the time of the First Great Awakening, there was already a movement toward a non-denominational identity. A forerunner in that century of what is happening in our day was George Whitefield, the great preacher of the First Great Awakening. While preaching in Philadelphia in 1740,