The Greatly Exaggerated Death of Protestantism

June 4th, 2025 | 16 min read

Brad East’s First Things article “Goldilocks Protestantism,” which has generated a lot of conversation since its publication earlier this spring, begins with a shocking statement: “Imagine a world without Protestantism.”

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Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. He is currently writing a history of Protestant Christian apologetics that is under contract with Oxford University Press.

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