Evangelicalism Posts

  • February 12, 2010

    Two Birds With One “Pastor-as-Ecclesial-Theologian” Stone

    Nothing particularly new here. Todd and I had lunch with a number of area pastors who wanted to hear more about the SAET. We both came away feeling like maybe we could have been more precise in explaining the SAET vision and mission. So I’ve been trying to think in fresh ways about how best to frame the whole discussion. What problems are we trying to address? How does the …

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    Categories: Academic Theology | Ecclesial Theologian | Ecclesial Theology | Evangelicalism | Pastor-theologian | The SAET

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  • August 21, 2009

    Millinerd on Hart’s Deconstructing Evangelicalism

    Matthew Milliner (of Millinerd fame) has a very nice review of David Hart’s Deconstructing Evangelicalism: Conservative Protestantism in the age of Billy Graham. Putting it mildly, Hart is not sympathetic to North American evangelicalism. For Hart, there is no substantive connection between Edwards (good) and contemporary evangelicalism (bad). The organic connection between Edwards and contemporary evangelicalism is a “fantasy” – a creation of historians such as Marsden and Noll. Critiquing Hart’s revisionist history, Matt insightfully comments:
    The book’s oddest feature is how it both suggests that evangelicalism is “a fantasy,” …

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    Categories: Evangelicalism

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