In Search of Ancient Roots: The Christian Past and the Evangelical Identity Crisis 9780830892600, 9780830851720, 2017038108, 2017033994

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Setting the Stage: Our Evangelical Identity Crisis
1. Only a Latecomer in Christian History? The Evangelical Identity Crisis
2. Evangelical Movements as a Perennial and Recurring Feature of Christian History
3. Needed for Appraising the Christian Past: A Principle of Authority
4. Needed for Appraising the Christian Past: A Concept of Development in Doctrine

Part II: Evangelical Engagements with Ancient Christianity: Examples to Encourage Us
5. Five Hundred Years of Protestant Views of Pre-Reformation Christianity
6. The Apostolic Fathers in the Hands of Protestants: 1600–2000
7. Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals and the Frequency of the Lord’s Supper
8. Early Church Baptism in the Hands of Evangelical Protestants
9. Theological Exegesis, Biblical Theology, and the History of Interpretation

Part III: Some Contemporary Examples That Should Give Us Pause
10. Short-Changed for Lack of the Apocrypha?
11. Bringing Back Monasticism?
12. A Tale of Two Newmans

Part IV: Three Challenges That Remain
13. Is Christian Unity Dependent on a Central Bishop of Rome?
14. Is Justification as Protestants Teach It the Historic Faith of the Church?
15. Why Are Younger Evangelicals Turning to Catholicism and Orthodoxy?

Appendix: The Colloquy of Regensburg on Justification
Author Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index

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