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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...

of evangelical Christianity entail the embracing of an estimate of evangelical Christianity’s origins, habits of thought, and expanse that is at odds with this movement’s self-understanding. The evangelical movement does not, in fact, conceive of itself as utterly cut off from Christian antiquity; nor does it understand itself to be merely a child of the Enlightenment. The person contemplating abandoning evangelical Christianity should therefore be more careful to weigh this movement according to
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