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Inwardness and the Identity of Christianity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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Stephen Sykes' The Identity of Christianity is a seminal contribution to the emerging literature on the problem of how Christians can tell whether a developing Christianity is remaining Christian. Because this work takes us in such interesting and fruitful directions I want to offer here some criticisms of one of its themes, which might otherwise frustrate progress in those directions. I would question the way Sykes characterizes Christian diversity and its inevitability.
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page 451 note 1 Sykes, S., The Identity of Christianity (London: SPCK, 1984), p. 240.Google Scholar Subsequent page references are in square brackets in the remainder of this paper.
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