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Stewart, Kenneth J.
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Evangelicalism -- History.
Church history.
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Stewart, Kenneth J.
Evangelicalism -- History.
Church history.
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In
search
of
ancient
roots
: the
Christian
past
and the
Evangelical
identity
crisis
/ Kenneth J. Stewart.
by
Stewart, Kenneth J.
InterVarsity Press, 2017.
Call #:
270.83 S849i
Subjects
Evangelicalism -- History.
Church history.
ISBN:
9780830851720 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Christian
past
and the
Evangelical
identity
crisis
Description:
286 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Part I : Setting the Stage : Our
Evangelical
Identity
Crisis
-- Only a Latecomer in
Christian
History? The
Evangelical
Identity
Crisis
--
Evangelical
Movements as a Perennial and Recurring Feature of
Christian
History -- Needed for Appraising the
Christian
Past
: a Principle of Authority -- Needed for Appraising the
Christian
Past
: a Concept of Development in Doctrine -- Part II :
Evangelical
Engagements with
Ancient
Christianity : Examples to Encourage Us -- Five Hundred Years of Protestant Views of Pre-Reformation Christianity -- The Apostolic Fathers in the Hands of Protestants: 1600-2000 -- Eighteenth-Century Evangelicals and the Frequency of the Lord's Supper -- Early Church Baptism in the Hands of
Evangelical
Protestants -- Theological Exegesis, Biblical Theology, and the History of Interpretation -- Part III : Some Contemporary Examples that Should Give Us Pause -- Short-Changed for Lack of the Apocrypha? -- Bringing Back Monasticism? -- A Tale of Two Newmans -- Part IV : Three Challenges that Remain -- Is
Christian
Unity Dependent on a Central Bishop of Rome? -- Is Justification as Protestants Teach It the Historic Faith of the Church? -- Why Are Younger Evangelicals Turning to Catholicism and Orthodoxy? -- Appendix: The Colloquy of Regensburg (1541) on Justification.
Summary:
"Protestant evangelicalism is in
crisis
. 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 of perceived deficits and theological challenges with the Protestant tradition. A common complaint about Protestant evangelicalism is its apparent disconnect from
ancient
Christianity. The antiquity and catholicity of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy seem to outshine the relative novelty of the Reformation. Some
evangelical
churches appear to be uninterested in the
ancient
historical
roots
of their faith as well as being liturgically and doctrinally unstable. Many within evangelicalism seem to have accepted at face value the suggestion that the
evangelical
faith is no more than a threadbare descendant of
ancient
Christianity. The result is that a number of younger Protestants in recent years have abandoned evangelicalism, turning instead to practices and traditions that appear more rooted in the early church. In
Search
of
Ancient
Roots
examines this phenomenon and places it within a wider historical context. Ken Stewart argues that the
evangelical
tradition in fact has a much healthier track record of interacting with
Christian
antiquity than it is usually given credit for. He surveys five centuries of Protestant engagement with the
ancient
church, showing that Christians belonging to the
evangelical
churches of the Reformation have consistently seen their faith as connected to early Christianity. Stewart explores areas of positive engagement, such as the Lord's Supper and biblical interpretation, as well as areas that raise concerns, such as monasticism. In
Search
of
Ancient
Roots
shows that evangelicals need not view their tradition as impoverished or lacking deep
roots
in the tradition.
Christian
antiquity is the heritage of all orthodox Christians, and evangelicals have the resources in their history to claim their place at the ecumenical table."--From publisher.
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