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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...

example, in North America—exists primarily there and primarily in the environs of fundamentalist or parachurch Protestantism.5 Now in fact there is evidence to suggest that fundamentalist or parachurch Protestant Christianity has not been the only variety of Christianity that has neglected the early church. Extremely liberal segments of Protestant Christianity in the early twentieth century—those that allowed to be called into question the virginal conception of Jesus, his physical resurrection three
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