Is There an Apostacy in America Today?
The modern theology in America is heavily influenced by pluralism and not modeled on the God of the gospels, according to Scriptures or the Ecumenical Creeds or Reformation. Those who interpret the recent history of American Christianity may level a charge of apostasy against it. 1 The fatal flaw in American Christianity can be traced back to ancient festering Christological issues that were never really resolved either at Chalcedon or in the sixteenth-century controversy between Lutherans and Calvinists. 2 Robert W. Jenson has analyzed the flaw of American Protestantism that allows it so easily to ‘substitute political ideology or psychotherapeutic spirituality for the gospel.’ 3 Jensen thinks American Protestantism might have experienced the reformation that Bonhoeffer missed had Jonathan Edwards not lost the battle he fought against Arminians and dei...