Christians in North America today are deeply divided about how to see Christianity. We live in a time of major conflict in the church. Millions of Christians are embracing an emerging way of seeing Christianity. Millions of other Christians continue to embrace an earlier vision of Christianity, often insistently defending it as "traditional" Christianity and as the only legitimate way of being a Christian. The conflict is not about a few items of Christian theology or behavior, but between two comprehensive ways of seeing Christianity as a whole. Marcus Borg