Modern Christianity was a faith marked as much by conflict and
issues of control/dominance as it was of revolution and
reformation. While early Christianity was not with out its own
issues it was dominated, mainly, by monolithic structures in
it’s regional Catholic or Orthodox forms. Reformation
Christianity was represented by argument and doctrinal dispute
and plurality of expression on the local level. Even areas with
state Lutheran or Evangelical churches had competition from
other local groups, sometimes referred to as Free or Evangelical
Free churches. In the midst of this erupted doctrinal disputes.
These disputes, more about groups competing in a market of
religious identity claiming space for themselves and their
existence, more often than not took the form of ideology and
theology. On this side of a history of faith shaped by those
conversations we can see the legacy of exclusive claims of faith
and belief: The bible is more often than not viewed as a
constitution or encyclopedia where faith, moralit