The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Do you consider Christianity as a religion

CNM: I think the use of terms often should be context related. Averagefellar posted in this thread:

"2. Religion, as distinct from theology, is godliness or real piety in practice, consisting in the performance of all known duties to God and our fellow men, in obedience to divine command, or from love to God and his law. James 1."

Iow, it is unfortunate that the word "religion" has become a categorial term rather than descriptor of experimental piety, as Philip Doddridge's title: "The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul" contemplates.

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CNM: Why do we deride our important theological distinguishers? If one is "Reformed," one is certainly "evangelical"; are they not? What better term to differentiate among Western nominal Christians?, that is, a way to say one is not Roman or liberal.