tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609203224961032874.post1549461436800231168..comments2024-03-01T10:10:40.165-07:00Comments on Speak the Truth in Love: Changing ProtestantismRandyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16751516602395247675noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7609203224961032874.post-91404402184804491642012-02-22T11:09:27.377-07:002012-02-22T11:09:27.377-07:00Quick point your link above doesn't work. The...Quick point your link above doesn't work. The correct link is "American isn't..." <br /><br />http://siena.org/January-2011/american-isnt-qprotestantq-anymore<br /><br />___<br /><br />(again you can reply after lent)<br /><br />As for the rest of your point... American religions are children of the Radical Reformation not the Magisterial Reformation. The Presbyterian and Congregationalist "reform" denominations in America have been in decline since the 18th century. Wesley was the cool radical guy of his day.<br /><br />Lets not forget how large Unitarianism and Universalism were several centuries back. <br /><br />The 19th century Arianism became the Millerites and later the Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses. The main surviving branch of Adventists were the Seventh Day Adventists which Ellen White over the course of her ministry pulled back from a full on Arian religion to a variant of Methodism, a religion that can comfortable be in the NCC and assert the trinity. <br /><br />Mormons were incredibly radical in the mid 19th century: divinity of Adam, prophetic leadership, doctrine of exaltation. Today the church downplays the differences, wants to be considered like evangelicals and has a neo-orthodox wing which is moving them in that direction. <br /><br />America has always been a hotbed of religious radicalism. The religious conformity of the 1950s and 60s was the exception in US history. An artificial unity created by a population that was averse to any sort of internal division. <br /><br />What is interesting is that for the last 2 generations America has been exporting its religion. Pentecostalism is becoming the dominant faith in Latin America. Adventists have more followers outside the United States than inside. Mormons have gone global over the last generation and having following in Asia and Africa as well as a renewed emphasis on England.<br /><br />American YRR / Evangelical style religion plays very well in Europe. <br /><br />What is more interesting is what happens to the rest of the world as American style Protestantism starts to become an important global faith? What does American religion look like in non American cultures?CD-Hosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00304535091189153224noreply@blogger.com