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) |
An Evangelical Manifesto  |
Os Guinness and signed by over 80 evangelical leaders. |
The Disturbing Legacy of Charles Finney  |
Michael Horton |
An Earnest Call For Evangelical Leaders To Recover The Gospel From Its Present Humiliation  |
Ray Ortlund, Jr. |
Four Movements  |
Don Matzat - (1) Evangelical Revivalism, (2) Neo-Evangelicalism, (3) Latter Rain Movement and (4) Postmodernism |
Understanding the Times  |
J. Ligon Duncan & Derek Thomas (mp3 & text) - 12 Part Series |
The Rejection of the Classical Doctrine of God And What It Says About the State of the Evangelical Movement  |
David Wells |
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) |
God In The Hands Of Angry Sinners  |
R. C. Sproul |
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) |
“Re-Imagining” the Princeton Mind  |
Paul Kjoss Helseth (JETS) - Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism |
Scripture as Word of God: Evangelical Assumption or Evangelical Question?  |
John D. Morrison (pdf) |
Marking the Watershed  |
Francis A. Schaeffer - “Evangelicals today are facing a watershed concerning the nature of biblical inspiration and authority.” |
A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future  |
Robert E. Webber, et al |
What are we Trying to Conserve? Evangelicalism and Sola Scriptura  |
Craig D. Allert (pdf) |
Evangelical Theological Scholarship in the 21st Century  |
Millard J. Erickson - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2003) |
Is Propositional Revelation Essential to Evangelical Spiritual Formation?  |
Gordon R. Lewis - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Jun 2003) |
Early Church Catechesis and New Christians' Classes in Contemporary Evangelicalism  |
Clinton E. Arnold - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2004) |
Assumed Evangelicalism: Some Reflections En Route to Denying the Gospel  |
David Gibson |
Cultural Pessimism in Modern Evangelical Thought: Francis Schaeffer, Carl Henry & Charles Colson  |
James A. Petterson - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dec 2006) |
Beyond Culture Wars - A Roundtable Discussion with...  |
J.I. Packer, James M. Boice, Richard Halverson, William Pannell & Michael S. Horton |
Leftward to Scofield: The Eclipse of the Kingdom in Post-conservative Evangelical Theology  |
Russell D. Moore - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sep 2004) |
Have Evangelicals Lost Their Way?  |
Philip Jensen |
The Doctrine of Justification and Contemporary "Born Again" Theology  |
John Johnson |
Justification and Evangelical Christianity: A Historical Concern (.pdf)  |
Philip H. Eveson, Reformation & Revival 6.4 (Fall 1997): 49-66. |
Survey of Christian Faith & Practice (.pdf)  |
White Horse Inn |
The Narcissism of Evangelical Latitudinarianism  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Starving of the Church-IV (.pdf)  |
Jim Elliff, Reformation & Revival 1:4 (Fall 1992): 105-122. |
The Starving of the Church-III (.pdf)  |
Reformation & Revival 1:3 (Summer 1992): 103-118. |
The Starving of the Church-II (.pdf)  |
Jim Elliff, Reformation & Revival 1:2 (Spring 1992): 97-110. |
The Starving of the Church (.pdf)  |
Jim Elliff, " Reformation & Revival 1:1 (Winter 1992): 81-88. |
Peace (with Evangelicalism) in Our Time  |
R. Scott Clark |
Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, & the Future of Denominationalism  |
Trevin Wax summaries of all the lectures at the Union University conference |
American Cheese – Exported  |
Dan Borvan |
Thirty Reflections on Scripture, Our Standards, and our History  |
William Shishko |
Do We Really Need to Wage War Against False Doctrine?  |
Phil Johnson |
Manly Men  |
Phil Johnson |
Some More Thoughts on Effeminate Evangelicalism  |
Phil Johnson |
Christless Christianity (MP3)  |
Dr. Michael Horton |
The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 3  |
Bob Dewaay |
The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 2  |
Bob Dewaay |
The Demise of Gospel Preaching in Modern Evangelicalism Part 1  |
Bob Dewaay |
The Decline of Christianity in the West? A Contrarian View  |
T. David Gordon |
The Survival of Evangelicalism  |
R. Scott Clark |
The coming evangelical collapse  |
Michael Spencer |
Paleo- and Neo-Reformed  |
Darryl G. Hart |
Christianity According to Evangelicalism  |
David Wells |
Salad Bar Sanctuaries  |
James M. Boice |
On Churchless Evangelicals (Pt 3)  |
Dr. Scott Clark |
On Churchless Evangelicals (pt 2)  |
Dr. Scott Clark |
On Churchless Evangelicals (pt 1)  |
Dr. Scott Clark |
The Uneasy Relationship between Reformed Christianity and American Evangelicalism  |
Michael S. Horton |
Viewpoint: Dr. Michael S. Horton  |
Horton Interviewed in Washington Post |
Defining Evangelicalism's Boundaries in Ministry (.pdf)  |
James Sweeney |
The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline  |
Joseph Bottum |
Evangelical & Reformed  |
Steve Hays Commenting on Lee Irons' post on Reformed Identity |
Evangelical Christians "more tolerant" than Previously Thought  |
J.W. Hendryx |
20 Reasons I Don't Take Potshots at Fundamentalists  |
John Piper |
Changes in Evangelicalism Over the Last 40 Years (mp3)  |
Wheaton Alumni Symposium with Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and John Piper |
No Place for Complacency  |
David Wells on The Courage to Be Protestant. |
An Evangelical Response to "An Evangelical Manifesto"  |
Al Mohler |
Not So Exceptional After All: American evangelicalism reassessed  |
David Bebbington |
Charles Atlas with a Halo: America's Billy Graham  |
Grant Wacker |
Awakening the Evangelical Conscience  |
Richard J. Mouw |
The Born-Again Mind: Harold John Ockenga  |
George Marsden |
The Unity of Faith: Evangelicalism & “Mere Christianity”  |
Timothy George |
Evangelicals and Others  |
Timothy George |
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Symposium  |
Grant Wacker |
Just As I Am (essay on Billy Graham)  |
Mark Noll |
Minding the Evangelical Mind  |
Mark Noll |
The Canterbury Trial  |
Gerald Bray on Rowan Williams and Evangelicals |
Evangelicalism, Culture, and Politics  |
Princeton Revisions interview with George Marsden |
Understanding American Evangelicals  |
Mark Noll |
Evangelicalism in America  |
Frontline Interview with Mark Noll |
The Rise of the Evangelicals  |
Mark Noll -- Interview in Christianity Today |
An Intimate Dinner: What is a Personal Relationship with Jesus?  |
Mark Noll -- A response to David Gregory's novel "Dinner With a Perfect Stranger" |
Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome: The Abandonment of Sola Scriptura as a Formal Principle  |
Bob DeWaay |
Natural Vs. Supernatural Religion  |
David Wells |
The Evangelical Mind Today  |
Mark Noll |
Three Ways of Relating to American Religion  |
R. Scott Clark |
A Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Fundamentalism  |
9Marks.org (March/April 2008) - What can we learn from the Christian Fundamentalists? |
Gospel Lite: Tastes Great; Less Filling  |
Phil Johnson |
Matters of the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 2)  |
Mark Thompson |
Saving the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 1)  |
Mark Thompson |
When is an Evangelical?  |
Matthias Media |
Worshiping the Lamb or Entertaining the Sheep?  |
Bryan D. Spinks |
Do Evangelicals Have a Future?  |
Collin Hansen |
Evan-jello-calism  |
Phil Johnson |
Evangelicalism Today: Symposium: Six Evangelicals Assess Their Movement  |
Russell Moore, John Franke, Darryl Hart, Michael Horton, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Denny Burk |
The Evangelical Crackup  |
DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK |
The Thirteen Critical Problems Facing Evangelicalism  |
Michael Spencer |
What are the Risks for Evangelicals?  |
Tim Keller |
Christian Gravitas in a Narcissistic Age  |
J. I. Packer |
Ecclesiola Ecclesia  |
D. M. Lloyd-Jones |
Defining the Boundaries of Evangelical Spirituality  |
Donald S. Whitney |
How Would You Define an Evangelical?  |
PBS Interview with Mark Noll |
How might one define Fundamentalism?  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
The 'Alpha' and the 'Christianity Explored' Course  |
Robin Weeks - Among Christians Alpha has earned a rapidly spreading reputation based on its effectiveness. |
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?" |
Roman Catholicism, Evangelical Protestantism, and the Beckwith Controversy  |
Sam Storms |
Why Do We Wander? Church Attendance in an Apathetic Age  |
Eric Landry |
Evangelicalism  |
Sam Storms |
Evangelistic Malpractice  |
William MacDonald - On conversions that do not stick |
American Protestants and the Problem of Tradition (MP3)  |
Ken Myers |
Fundamentalism Vs. Reformed Theology  |
monergism.com |
B. B. Warfield on Arminians and Evangelicals (MP3)  |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
Hell's Best Kept Secret...the Law  |
Ray Comfort (.pdf) |
Grace Alone: An Evangelical Problem?  |
by Kim Riddlebarger |
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 |
An Overview of Contemporary Theology  |
Dr. C. Matthew McMahon |
The Importance of Being More Than Earnest  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Bleeding Of The Evangelical Church  |
David F. Wells |
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 |
A Call for Discernment (Part 1)  |
John MacArthur |
A Call for Discernment (Part 2)  |
John MacArthur |
A Call for Discernment (Part 3)  |
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 |
Another Gospel  |
John Cheesman |
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. |
Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, Though A Mighty Power  |
John Kennedy (1819-1884) - A critique of the Arminian message and method of evangelism |
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 |
The Intrusion of Psychology into Christian Theology  |
Don Matzat - Part 1. Sin and Self-Esteem; Part 2. Encountering "Encounter"; Part 3. Psychological Mysticism |
What Think Ye of the Promise Keepers?  |
Robert Newton, John Armstrong & Kim Riddlebarger |
Sounding Out the Idols of Church Growth  |
Os Guinness |
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing  |
Phillip R. Johnson - How Charles Finney's Theology Ravaged the Evangelical Movement |