AHC: Christianity Born Protestant and Stays Protestant

Skallagrim

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Post-Reformation, diversity of denominations, none of them "established" was arguably good for Christian belief in America. Could this have been the case from the beginning, or was a prolonged period of establishment and a dominant Catholic tradition necessary to mold society to make it ready for the American model to eventually emerge? I think @IamtheEmps and @Skallagrim would say it was.

Indeed I would. By the time we get to colonisation of the Americas, there is a whole notion of 'Christendom' that's well-established. Even when leaving its organisational trappings behind, the 'cultural background' of Christianity is just there. I have some trouble seeing a realistic way for such a universal framework of just flat-out assumed norms and ideas to arise when the very premise is that the unified structure that produced/codified them never exists.
 
Indeed I would. By the time we get to colonisation of the Americas, there is a whole notion of 'Christendom' that's well-established. Even when leaving its organisational trappings behind, the 'cultural background' of Christianity is just there. I have some trouble seeing a realistic way for such a universal framework of just flat-out assumed norms and ideas to arise when the very premise is that the unified structure that produced/codified them never exists.

To expand on this further. When Luther split from the church, to justify this he innovated ALOT. The idea of the Universal Church of all true believers is bullshit, and was never the meaning of "on this rock I build my church". The desire for unity in the early church was very strong, and not just a unity of structure but of doctrine, at most this "Protestant" Christianity would be nothing more than one of the modern wishy-washy churches where anything goes, as they couldn't be counted on to have unified dogma let alone doctrine, with a unity of structure but no faith.
 
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