Reforming Protestantism: Christian Commitment in Today's World

Interpretation | April 1, 1997| | Copyright

Reforming Protestantism: Christian Commitment in Today's World, by Douglas li Ottati. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, 1995. 174 pp. $19.99 (paper). ISBN 0-664-25604-X. THOSE CELEBRATING OR LAMENTING the demise of what has been "mainline" Protestantism in the United States may be premature. Ottati makes a strong descriptive and normative argument for a renovated and vital version of "reforming Protestantism," a significant strand of mainstream Protestantism. Ottati does not propose to recapture the past. Reforming Protestantism can no longer aspire to the cultural hegemony that the ...

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