expert at using the language of Canadian public discourse to express the distinctive convictions of their religious traditions. North American pluralism, in short, has never created a simple ecclesiastical free-for-all, but it has nevertheless given a distinctly North American cast to the general history of Christianity. It is for this reason that Ernst Troeltsch’s famous distinction between “church” and “sect” possesses only slight utility for the United States.35 The European distinction between
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