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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