Forthcoming book on evangelicalism

Sometime next year (hopefully) Zondervan will publish a “four views” book on evangelicalism.  Four evangelical theologians will attempt to define “evangelical” and “evangelicalism.”  Among them will be yours truly and Al Mohler.  Each of the authors will write a chapter followed by responses from the other three.  I will make the undisputable point that evangelicalism is a movement and not an organization and therefore cannot have boundaries.  Talk of evangelical boundaries is simply nonsensical.  An organization has boundaries; a movement cannot have boundaries.  In the past Mohler has said that a center without a circumference is impossible.  That is, of course, not true.  There are many examples of “fuzzy sets” with clear centers but not definite circumference.  A social or religious movement is one clear example.  One always has a center of interest around which adherents gather but one never has clear, definite boundaries.  The moment it has them it is no longer a movement; it becomes an organization.  The Evangelical Theological Society is an organization.  Evangelicalism is a movement.  The former has boundaries; the latter cannot have boundaries.  This obvious fact is being overlooked in all the talk about “evangelical boundaries” in the past decade.