Theoblogy
Back at Beliefnet, I often wondered why the evangelical intelligentsia fought so hard to save that word. The word, “evangelical,” I mean. Well, the young bucks at Patrol Magazine don’t just wonder — they attack! Money quote:
The fight to define evangelicalism in its latter days also operates on the mistaken premise that an imagined theological purity or conformance to a “lost” orthodoxy, rather than an emphasis on ethics, spiritual discipline and mystery, will revive the power of the Christian church. It is astonishing that so many intelligent Christians seem to believe there is a deficit in emphasis on evangelism and scriptural literalism, and that, if the hatches are just battened down on a more solid “worldview,” evangelicalism can resume explaining the universe to new generations of believers. In this respect, evangelicalism’s true believers resemble the faction of the Republican Party that asserts with a straight face that returning to “core principles,” and not a radical restructuring of priorities, will bring waves of Americans back to the right wing.
via Why obsessing over definitions won’t save evangelicalism. – Editorial – Patrol Magazine.
HT: Rick Bennett
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