We are called to see that the Church does not adapt its thinking to the horizons that modernity prescribes for it but rather that it brings to those horizons the powerful antidote of God's truth. It is not the Word of God but rather modernity that stands in need of being demythologised.
David F. Wells No Place For Truth, pg. 100
What is evangelicalism? It is a title I myself identify with on occasion, especially when marking myself off from liberalism, another ill-defined, amorphous, transdenominational concept. But in a world where there are “evangelicals” who deny justification by faith as understood by the Protestant Reformers, who deny God’s comprehensive knowledge of the future, who deny penal substitutionary atonement, who deny the Messianic self-consciousness of Christ, who have problems with the Nicene Creed, who deny the Chalcedonian definition of Christ’s person, who cannot be trusted to make clear statements on homosexuality, and who advocate epistemologies and other philosophical viewpoints which are entirely unprecedented in the history of the orthodox Christian church, it is clear that the term “evangelical” and its cognates, without any qualifying adjective, such as “confessional” or “open” or “post-conservative,” is in danger of becoming next to meaningless. And, even when one qualifies the noun in these ways, it is not immediately clear that one is then talking about subsets or modifications of a single, overarching, coherent movement.
Carl Trueman
| Title |
Notes |
What is the Gospel?  |
D.A. Carson (mp3) |
The Bleeding Of The Evangelical Church  |
David F. Wells |
The Disturbing Legacy of Charles Finney  |
Michael Horton |
An Evangelical Manifesto  |
Os Guinness and signed by over 80 evangelical leaders. |
What is an Evangelical? (MP3 Series)  |
Tim Keller & Dick Lucas |
The Future of Evangelical Theology  |
Roger Olson with responses by Clark H. Pinnock, Thomas C. Oden, and Timothy George (interesting - I do not agree with all views here) |
Another Gospel  |
John Cheesman |
Understanding the Times  |
J. Ligon Duncan & Derek Thomas (mp3 & text) - 12 Part Series |
Four Movements  |
Don Matzat - (1) Evangelical Revivalism, (2) Neo-Evangelicalism, (3) Latter Rain Movement and (4) Postmodernism |
An Earnest Call For Evangelical Leaders To Recover The Gospel From Its Present Humiliation  |
Ray Ortlund, Jr. |
What Is an Evangelical?: The Confessional Evangelical View  |
Trevin Wax summarizes Al Mohler's View as expressed in Four Views on the Spectrum of Evangelicalism. Editors Andy Naselli and Collin Hansen |
The Rejection of the Classical Doctrine of God And What It Says About the State of the Evangelical Movement  |
David Wells |
Cultural Pessimism in Modern Evangelical Thought: Francis Schaeffer, Carl Henry & Charles Colson  |
James A. Petterson - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dec 2006) |
Assumed Evangelicalism: Some Reflections En Route to Denying the Gospel  |
David Gibson |
Early Church Catechesis and New Christians' Classes in Contemporary Evangelicalism  |
Clinton E. Arnold - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2004) |
Is Propositional Revelation Essential to Evangelical Spiritual Formation?  |
Gordon R. Lewis - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Jun 2003) |
Evangelical Theological Scholarship in the 21st Century  |
Millard J. Erickson - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2003) |
What are we Trying to Conserve? Evangelicalism and Sola Scriptura  |
Craig D. Allert (pdf) |
A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future  |
Robert E. Webber, et al |
Marking the Watershed  |
Francis A. Schaeffer - “Evangelicals today are facing a watershed concerning the nature of biblical inspiration and authority.” |
Scripture as Word of God: Evangelical Assumption or Evangelical Question?  |
John D. Morrison (pdf) |
“Re-Imagining” the Princeton Mind  |
Paul Kjoss Helseth (JETS) - Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism |
The Fourth Great Awakening or Apostasy: Is American Evangelicalism Cycling Upwards or Spiraling Downwards?  |
John B. Carpenter -Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dec 2001) |
God In The Hands Of Angry Sinners  |
R. C. Sproul |
The Doctrine of Justification and Contemporary "Born Again" Theology  |
John Johnson |
Have Evangelicals Lost Their Way?  |
Philip Jensen |
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing  |
Phillip R. Johnson - How Charles Finney's Theology Ravaged the Evangelical Movement |
Sounding Out the Idols of Church Growth  |
Os Guinness |
What Think Ye of the Promise Keepers?  |
Robert Newton, John Armstrong & Kim Riddlebarger |
The Intrusion of Psychology into Christian Theology  |
Don Matzat - Part 1. Sin and Self-Esteem; Part 2. Encountering "Encounter"; Part 3. Psychological Mysticism |
What is an Evangelical?  |
Kevin Reed |
Evangelicalism: A Brief Definition  |
David Hilborn (.pdf) |
Evangelicalism: A Brief Definition  |
David Hilborn (.html) |
Evangelicalism  |
Paul Mizzi |
Defining Evangelicalism  |
Wheaton |
Evangelicalism in critical condition  |
Phil Johnson |
Christianity Astray: Is "New Evangelicalism" Really Pseudo-Evangelicalism?  |
Phil Johnson |
The Marcions have landed! A warning for evangelicals  |
Carl Trueman |
Reckoning With The Past in an Anti-Historical Age  |
Carl R. Trueman |
Christianity, Liberalism and the New Evangelicalism  |
Carl Trueman |
The Deadly Dangers of Moralism  |
John MacArthur |
The New Gospel: Appealing But Not Revealing  |
Jim Elliff |
Shouldn't We Evangelise Instead of Arguing About Theology  |
William Harrell |
The Gospel and Evangelicalism: An Assessment  |
William Webster |
MY EVANGELISTIC CHECKLIST  |
David Barshinger |
Evangelistic Malpractice  |
William MacDonald Conversions that do not stick |
Review of D. G. Harts Deconstructing Evangelicalism  |
Rev. Charles R. Biggs |
Four Kinds of Universalism  |
John M. Brentnall |
Caught in our Shame: Comments on the Recent Barna Report  |
Jim Elliff "We have for too long said that doctrine has only negligible importance. Now it is pay-back time. Our effeminate gospel has turned out to be no gospel at all. " |
Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?  |
W. Robert Godfrey |
When We Talk About Heresy, Let's Be Honest  |
Tom Ascol |
Is the contemporary Gospel "Another Gospel"?  |
Michael J. Penfold Are we really to believe that within 12 months of being saved, under the sound preaching of the Holy Spirit empowered Biblical gospel, 95.2% of the 'converts' (over a quarter of a million people) had become 'backsliders& |
The New Gospel of Today  |
L. R. Shelton, Jr. |
Modern Evangelism Unmasked  |
W. F. Bell |
What's Wrong with Evangelical Theology?  |
Peter J. Leithart |
Demise of Gospel Preaching In The Modern Evangelical Church  |
Bob Dewway (.pdf) |
Trusting in a Culturally Relevant Gospel  |
Os Guinness Evangelicals have never strived for relevance in society as much as they do now. Ironically, he says, they have never been more irrelevant. |
Decisional Regeneration  |
Tim Challies |
How Does Doctrine Affect Evangelism?  |
The Divergent Paths of Nettleton and Finney |
Holy Men and Pragmatism  |
The Jollyblogger |
The Biblical Attitude to Erroneous Teaching  |
David P. Kingdon M.A.,B.D. |
If I'm an Evangelical, What Am I?  |
Timothy George |
Deconstructing the (Christian?) Subculture Part I  |
Bob Thune |
Deconstructing the (Christian?) Subculture Part II  |
Bob Thune |
Law and Gospel, an Important Distinction in Evangelism  |
Massimo Lorenzini |
An Interview With Dr. J. I. Packer on Modern Evangelicalism  |
(Founders) |
Charles Finneys Influence on American Evangelicalism  |
Bob DeWaay |
Evangelicalisms Insecure Calvinists  |
Gregory Johnson |
A Critique of the Evangelical Doctrine of Solo Scriptura  |
Keith Mathison |
Recovering God's Sovereign Grace The Arminian Captivity of the Modern Evangelical Church  |
Sung Wook Chung |
A Mind in Love with God  |
John Piper |
J. Gresham Machen's Response to Modernism  |
John Piper |
Grace Alone: An Evangelical Problem?  |
by Kim Riddlebarger |
Hell's Best Kept Secret...the Law  |
Ray Comfort (.pdf) |
B. B. Warfield on Arminians and Evangelicals (MP3)  |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
Fundamentalism Vs. Reformed Theology  |
monergism.com |
American Protestants and the Problem of Tradition (MP3)  |
Ken Myers |
Evangelistic Malpractice  |
William MacDonald - On conversions that do not stick |
Evangelicalism  |
Sam Storms |
Why Do We Wander? Church Attendance in an Apathetic Age  |
Eric Landry |
Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism, and the Beckwith Controversy  |
Sam Storms |
Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism, and the Beckwith Controversy (2)  |
Sam Storms - "Why is it that a number of Protestants are converting to Catholicism? What is it about the RCC that draws them?" |
The 'Alpha' and the 'Christianity Explored' Course  |
Robin Weeks - Among Christians Alpha has earned a rapidly spreading reputation based on its effectiveness. |
How might one define Fundamentalism?  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
How Would You Define an Evangelical?  |
PBS Interview with Mark Noll |
Ecclesiola Ecclesia  |
D. M. Lloyd-Jones |
Christian Gravitas in a Narcissistic Age  |
J. I. Packer |
The Thirteen Critical Problems Facing Evangelicalism  |
Michael Spencer |
The Evangelical Crackup  |
DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK |
Evangelicalism Today: Symposium: Six Evangelicals Assess Their Movement  |
Russell Moore, John Franke, Darryl Hart, Michael Horton, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Denny Burk |
Evan-jello-calism  |
Phil Johnson |
Do Evangelicals Have a Future?  |
Collin Hansen |
Worshiping the Lamb or Entertaining the Sheep?  |
Bryan D. Spinks |
When is an Evangelical?  |
Matthias Media |
Saving the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 1)  |
Mark Thompson |
Matters of the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 2)  |
Mark Thompson |
Gospel Lite: Tastes Great; Less Filling  |
Phil Johnson |
The Evangelical Mind Today  |
Mark Noll |
Natural Vs. Supernatural Religion  |
David Wells |
Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome: The Abandonment of Sola Scriptura as a Formal Principle  |
Bob DeWaay |
An Intimate Dinner: What is a Personal Relationship with Jesus?  |
Mark Noll -- A response to David Gregory's novel "Dinner With a Perfect Stranger" |
The Rise of the Evangelicals  |
Mark Noll -- Interview in Christianity Today |
Evangelicalism in America  |
Frontline Interview with Mark Noll |
Understanding American Evangelicals  |
Mark Noll |
Evangelicalism, Culture, and Politics  |
Princeton Revisions interview with George Marsden |
The Canterbury Trial  |
Gerald Bray on Rowan Williams and Evangelicals |
Minding the Evangelical Mind  |
Mark Noll |
Just As I Am (essay on Billy Graham)  |
Mark Noll |
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Symposium  |
Grant Wacker |
Evangelicals and Others  |
Timothy George |
The Unity of Faith: Evangelicalism & “Mere Christianity”  |
Timothy George |
The Born-Again Mind: Harold John Ockenga  |
George Marsden |
Awakening the Evangelical Conscience  |
Richard J. Mouw |
Charles Atlas with a Halo: America's Billy Graham  |
Grant Wacker |
Not So Exceptional After All: American evangelicalism reassessed  |
David Bebbington |
An Evangelical Response to "An Evangelical Manifesto"  |
Al Mohler |
No Place for Complacency  |
David Wells on The Courage to Be Protestant. |
Changes in Evangelicalism Over the Last 40 Years (mp3)  |
Wheaton Alumni Symposium with Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and John Piper |
20 Reasons I Don't Take Potshots at Fundamentalists  |
John Piper |
Evangelical Christians "more tolerant" than Previously Thought  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Evangelical & Reformed  |
Steve Hays Commenting on Lee Irons' post on Reformed Identity |
The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline  |
Joseph Bottum |
Defining Evangelicalism's Boundaries in Ministry (.pdf)  |
James Sweeney |
The Uneasy Relationship between Reformed Christianity and American Evangelicalism  |
Michael S. Horton |
Salad Bar Sanctuaries  |
James M. Boice |
Christianity According to Evangelicalism  |
David Wells |
Paleo- and Neo-Reformed  |
Darryl G. Hart |
The coming evangelical collapse  |
Michael Spencer |
The Decline of Christianity in the West? A Contrarian View  |
T. David Gordon |
The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 1  |
Bob Dewaay |
The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 2  |
Bob Dewaay |
The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 3  |
Bob Dewaay |
Christless Christianity (MP3)  |
Dr. Michael Horton |
Some More Thoughts on Effeminate Evangelicalism  |
Phil Johnson |
Manly Men  |
Phil Johnson |
Do We Really Need to Wage War Against False Doctrine?  |
Phil Johnson |
Thirty Reflections on Scripture, Our Standards, and our History  |
William Shishko |
American Cheese – Exported  |
Dan Borvan |
Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, & the Future of Denominationalism  |
Trevin Wax summaries of all the lectures at the Union University conference |
The Starving of the Church (.pdf)  |
Jim Elliff, " Reformation & Revival 1:1 (Winter 1992): 81-88. |
The Starving of the Church-II (.pdf)  |
Jim Elliff, Reformation & Revival 1:2 (Spring 1992): 97-110. |
The Starving of the Church-III (.pdf)  |
Reformation & Revival 1:3 (Summer 1992): 103-118. |
The Starving of the Church-IV (.pdf)  |
Jim Elliff, Reformation & Revival 1:4 (Fall 1992): 105-122. |
Survey of Christian Faith & Practice (.pdf)  |
White Horse Inn |
Justification and Evangelical Christianity: A Historical Concern (.pdf)  |
Philip H. Eveson, Reformation & Revival 6.4 (Fall 1997): 49-66. |
The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind  |
Carl Trueman |
Who Exactly Are the Evangelicals?  |
Michael Horton |
The Problem of Evangelical Biblical Illiteracy  |
David R. Nienhuis |
How Did We Make Such an Evangelical Mess?  |
John MacArthur |
The Evangelical Reformed Movement: A Comeback  |
Justin Taylor, Kevin DeYoung,and Collin Hansen |
The Perils of 'Wannabe Cool' Christianity  |
BRETT MCCRACKEN |
The Fall and Rise of Evangelicalism  |
John Barber |
Christianity in America - A Roundtable Discussion  |
With J. I. Packer, James M. Boice, Richard Halverson, William Pannell and Michael S. Horton |
The Influence of Liberalism upon Evangelicalism— ‘the Curate’s Egg’  |
Melvin Tinker |
Evangelicals and the Way of Salvation  |
J. I. Packer |
Word and World: Biblical Authority and The Quandary of Modernity  |
David F. Wells |