All the same, some Catholic thinkers regarded Protestantism as “a movement on the way out. Theologically and biblically it had no leg to stand on … Occasionally we made fun of it.” ...

This question is Hollinger’s starting point in Chris­tianity’s American Fate. His answer is simple: Protestantism. The United States may not have been founded as a Christian nation, but the dominance ...

Protestantism is a matter of degrees, however: between an infallible papacy and the self-ordained soapbox preacher there are many levels. But the intermediary layers that once counteracted America ...

Two new books show the range covered by the best Protestant self-critique. Peter Leithart’s The End of Protestantism: Pursuing Unity in a Fragmented Church (Brazos) and Kevin Vanhoozer’s ...

Moreover, Ortlund shows “how commonly and easily Protestantism is misrepresented, even by Protestants.” According to Ortlund, a popular writer and theologian, “It is sadly commonplace for ...

A PURELY statistical study of the life and growth of Protestantism in the United States during the last hundred years does not support a very widely held conviction that Protestantism is losing ...

Protestantism was a reactionary movement that sought to address the abuses perpetrated by the Roman Catholic Church and to address the problematic teachings it espoused. As the word suggests, it ...

White mainline Protestantism is in decline — at least, that’s been the prevailing narrative for the past few decades. White evangelical Christian denominations have ascended to political power ...

However, one-fifth of those raised Protestant have left Protestantism altogether; most of them are now unaffiliated (13%), with smaller numbers having become Catholic (3%) or members of other faiths ...

For these reasons, I'm inclined to stick with the consensus that non-evangelical Protestantism is disappearing as a mass phenomenon (which does not exclude success in smaller communities).

But, if current trends continue, mainline Protestantism has about 23 Easters left. The news of mainline Protestantism’s decline is hardly new. Yet the trend lines are showing a trajectory toward ...

There she first emphasized the complicated leadership role women have played in American Protestantism. By the first half of the 20th century, her research showed, “fundamentalists had adopted the ...