This question is Hollinger’s starting point in Chris­tianity’s American Fate. His answer is simple: Protestantism. The United States may not have been founded as a Christian nation, but the dominance ...

Fundamentalism is a quintessentially American form of religious expression, but one we associate almost exclusively with ...

Two new books show the range covered by the best Protestant self-critique. Peter Leithart’s The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos) and Kevin Vanhoozer’s ...

There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...

He then seeks to offer explanations for the decline of mainline liberal Protestantism’s influence on American culture and society. Hollinger argues that as the mainline Protestant establishment ...

Protestantism was a reactionary movement that sought to address the abuses perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Church and to address the problematic teachings it espoused. As the word suggests, it ...

Moreover, Ortlund shows “how commonly and easily Protestantism is misrepresented, even by Protestants.” According to Ortlund, a popular writer and theologian, “It is sadly commonplace for ...

Protestantism did not spring fully formed from the minds and mouths of the Reformers. When Martin Luther nailed his famed 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Schlosskirche in 1517, he was ...

The Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who ...

In the annals of Croatian history, the emergence of Protestantism stands as a testament to determination and a bold vision. Originating from Germany, the Protestant movement swiftly extended its ...