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Mainline Protestantism, once a primary cultural and political pillar of American life, is in freefall. Traditional Protestant ...
Ecumenical Protestantism may have only been a way station on the journey toward a new ethic, one comfortable with diversity and open to the discoveries of modern science. Whether or not ecumenical ...
Former President George W. Bush again criticized what he sees as a Republican Party that is not inclusive enough, arguing that if it stands for “White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, then it’s not ...
The surveys about mainline Protestantism just keep coming and coming. And — this might not be news to you — the results of those surveys keep getting worse and worse. Ryan Burge, religious ...
Every 18th and 19th century High Tory or Burkean Whig who fought against radical Protestantism in the old country warned of this very thing. But keep in mind that authority systems are dynamic.
Martin Luther laid the groundwork for capitalism by ushering in the ‘age of the individual’—but what do his principles suggest about growth and the future of innovation?
The trouble is that Mainline Protestantism is more like a phantom limb than a budding branch. We still feel it tingling even though there's not much left.
Half of those changing faiths within Protestantism (50%) say they felt called by God to join their new faith. About three-in-ten (28%) of those who changed within Protestantism say they made the ...
But Protestantism was also exerting tremendous centrifugal force in American culture, spinning out dissenters, agitators and innovators whose experimentation has had lasting creative significance. In ...
All the same, some Catholic thinkers regarded Protestantism as “a movement on the way out. Theologically and biblically it had no leg to stand on … Occasionally we made fun of it.” ...
The reaction of Protestantism in America to a secular age has been different from the reaction of Protestantism in Europe, but the total consequences cannot be said to be more fortunate.