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Inwardness and the Identity of Christianity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Rod Sykes
Rod Sykes
Affiliation:
Wilmot United Church, Fredericton, N. B., Canada
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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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Religious Studies , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , December 1988 , pp. 451 - 461
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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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.

page 453 note 1 Religious Studiese, XXI (1985), 594.

page 457 note 1 This is Mitchell's, B. G. ‘principle of tenacity’, from The justification of Religious Belief (London: Macmillan, 1973), ch. 7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 458 note 1 Murray, , The Problem of God: Yesterday and Today, quoted by Pelikan, Development of Christian Doctrine; Some Historical Prolegomena (New Haven: Yale, 1969), p. I.Google Scholar