Constellations that once killed each other over doctrine can become parts of one larger "us" without their doctrines converging. Catholics and Lutherans who fought the Thirty Years' War now share book clubs in Minnesota with their doctrines as different as ever. A larger shared story forms by nesting differences as parts of itself, not by resolving them.

Evidence 2 passages

• groundsSource document

  It's not that differences between these groups have evaporated. Their doctrines remain as different as ever. It's just that somehow, over time, they've become different parts of the same culture, some single, amorphous, larger, shared us.

• backsSource document

  Christianity emerged right where these two apparently contradictory narratives overlapped. It represented a synthesis that took some themes from each and rejected some that didn't fit.

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