The calls of warning for Protestant theology have been long in the making, or at least for a certain variety of Protestant theology. The 20th century, for all of the ecumenical exchanges which occurred, were rough times for Protestants, as the markers and assessments of what even counts as a Protestant changed, morphed, and proliferated across the world. As charismatic movements, evangelicalism, and global movements of Christianity exploded, the originating impulses of the 16th century founders seem like a distant echo, the ones who opened doors out of Catholicism, but no longer are sought for their approval as millions pass through on their way to building new houses of worship.
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Myles Werntz
Myles Werntz is the author of Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology's Revolutionary Century. He writes at Taking Off and Landing and teaches at Abilene Christian University.
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