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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...

Thus, this book cannot hope to argue successfully that all such reaction against evangelical Christianity’s current situation is ill-founded (yet some certainly is) or that all such reaction is unwarranted (though some certainly is). The book aims instead to address two fundamental issues that, like a thread, run through these manifestations of what I will call the “evangelical identity crisis.” I identify and deal with these in the conviction that only when these matters are faced can evangelicals
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