I sometimes wonder how widely read this blog is, because while the traffic is modest, some of my points often echo elsewhere. For example, First Things has an article very reminiscent of my post on the supposed “evangelical century.” Author Carl Trueman takes the same position I do, which is that there really isn’t such a thing as “Evangelicalism.”  It’s a category, not a denomination.  It contains infinite theologies.  Put simply, its defining characteristic is an absence of hierarchy.  Otherwise, its adherents have little else in common. As if to underline how individualized Protestantism has become Trueman outlines his beliefs:…

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