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To Serve, and Not to Lord Over Us: Calvin on the Tradition of the Church

September 22nd, 2008 | 2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

From a sociological standpoint, it is a stretch to say that most evangelicals have any relationship to ecclesiastical traditions that extend beyond the past fifty years at all.  Among those who convert to mainline Protestant or Catholic denominations, this is typically the first and primary critique:  evangelicals have no sense of history.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.