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Roger Olson on \u201cWhen did evangelicalism start to go wrong (right)?\u201d The Battle for the Bible launched an evangelical heresy-hunt that reached epic proportions within just a few years.\u00a0 \u2026\u00a0 One by one, evangelical and Baptist denominations and institutions imposed inerrancy statements on their employees and faculties.\u00a0 Fuller is one evangelical seminary that did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,65],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicals","tag-bible","tag-tribalism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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