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Evangelicals lead churches, plant churches, fill churches, and even split churches. But they have not distinguished themselves in theological reflection on the church. This book tackles what the character of evangelicalism as a loose coalition of Christians says about the movement’s attitude toward the church. Are certain ecclesiologies more in keeping with the evangelical ethos than others? What...

heart?”10 Thus, seventeenth-century warfare and politics offer the first clue that the evangelical attitude toward the church, arising in the aftermath of these momentous events, would be unprecedented. It would be more possible now to conceive of the church as being among all the visible churches and to realize this ideal in public contexts and new forms alongside the formal, institutional church. As Ward argues, there was a “separation of religious from ecclesiastical life,” and the religious mood
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