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In Search of Ancient Roots: The Christian Past and the Evangelical Identity Crisis is unavailable, but you can change that!

Today it is increasingly difficult for Protestants to identify what counts as distinctively Protestant, much less what counts as evangelical. As evangelicals increasingly lose contact with the churches and traditions descending from the Reformation, and as relations with Roman Catholicism continue to thaw, it becomes harder to explain why one should remain committed to the Reformation in the face...

Christian history requires a “rummage sale” in order to be “reconfigured” for the next phase of Christianity; that “sale” and “reconfiguration” are under way right now.6 Now, if a person leaves the evangelical movement for one alternative or the other, what is it that is left behind? The person departing from this stream of Christianity for Roman Catholicism or Orthodoxy is convinced that he or she is leaving a movement that is frivolous and “lite”
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