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Finding Our Balance : Repositioning Mainstream Protestantism.

Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis. We are not fundamentalists, but it is esy to define ourselves in reaction to them. Paralyzed by the shock of a cultural turn toward skepticism, we are tempted to make allies of the skeptics, partly to distance ourselves from the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byars, Ronald P.
Otros Autores: Currie, Thomas W. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015.
©2015
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: Where are we, and how did we get here? -- Question which authority? -- What's the matter with orthodoxy? -- Mid-American generic Protestant worship -- What's at stake on Sunday morning? -- Attentiveness to the poor: revisiting the Protestant ethic -- Epilogue -- A sermon preached at First Presbyterian Church, Lexington, Kentucky. 
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