Most of us, for instance, rarely have cause to reflect that some of the variants of America's indigenous evangelical Christianity, especially of the "fundamentalist" sort, would have to be reckoned - if judged in the full light of Christian history - positively bizarre. Yet many of its dominant and most reputable churches have - quite naturally and without any apparent attempt at novelty - evolved a Christianity so peculiar as to be practically without precedent: an entire theological and spiritual
world, internally consistent, deeply satisfying to many, and nearly impossible to ground in the
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