Ed. note: This is the third and final response in our symposium on Brandon McGinley’s book The Prodigal Church.
The American landscape has been a fertile seedbed historically for a very specific sort of Christianity. Methodism and Baptist expressions of the faith have thrived here for much of the past 200 years. Other more novel innovations in church history, such as the restorationists and dispensationalists, have also flourished here. Indeed, even more troubling theological innovators that simply depart from historic Christianity, such as the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, have managed to thrive in the American soil. The branches of Christianity capable of playing within the broadly open landscape afforded to us by the American project have thrived, in a certain way at least.
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