Long before the current news was running articles about how the modern day flight away from theology has rendered the term evangelical virtually useless, David Wells observed:
"As evangelicalism has continued to grow numerically, it has seeped through its older structures and now spills out in all directions, producing a family of hybrids whose theological connections are quite baffling: evangelical Catholics, evangelicals who are Catholic, evangelical liberationists, evangelical feminists, evangelical ecumenists, ecumenists who are evangelical, young evangelicals, orthodox evangelicals, radical evangelicals, liberal evangelicals, Liberals who are evangelical, and charismatic evangelicals. The word evangelical, precisely because it has lost its confessional dimensioin, has become descriptively anemic."(David Wells, No Place for Truth, p. 134)
And long before Wells's voice was sounded, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said the same thing. Another must read is: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, What Is an Evangelical? (Banner of Truth Trust)
This past week I was reviewing highlighted portions of a book that I read twelve years ago, one that many consider to be one of the most important books published in the past 20 years. I agree. If you are a thinker and have not read No Place for...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
