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 |
God In The Hands Of Angry Sinners  |
R. C. Sproul |
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) |
The Rejection of the Classical Doctrine of God And What It Says About the State of the Evangelical Movement  |
David Wells |
Understanding the Times  |
J. Ligon Duncan & Derek Thomas (mp3 & text) - 12 Part Series |
A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future  |
Robert E. Webber, et al |
Assumed Evangelicalism: Some Reflections En Route to Denying the Gospel  |
David Gibson |
Beyond Culture Wars - A Roundtable Discussion with...  |
J.I. Packer, James M. Boice, Richard Halverson, William Pannell & Michael S. Horton |
Cultural Pessimism in Modern Evangelical Thought: Francis Schaeffer, Carl Henry & Charles Colson  |
James A. Petterson - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Dec 2006) |
Early Church Catechesis and New Christians' Classes in Contemporary Evangelicalism  |
Clinton E. Arnold - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2004) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
What are we Trying to Conserve? Evangelicalism and Sola Scriptura  |
Craig D. Allert (pdf) |
“Re-Imagining” the Princeton Mind  |
Paul Kjoss Helseth (JETS) - Postconservative Evangelicalism, Old Princeton, and the Rise of Neo-Fundamentalism |
Have Evangelicals Lost Their Way?  |
Philip Jensen |
Leftward to Scofield: The Eclipse of the Kingdom in Post-conservative Evangelical Theology  |
Russell D. Moore - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sep 2004) |
The Doctrine of Justification and Contemporary "Born Again" Theology  |
John Johnson |
20 Reasons I Don't Take Potshots at Fundamentalists  |
John Piper |
A Call for Discernment (Part 1)  |
John MacArthur |
A Call for Discernment (Part 2)  |
John MacArthur |
A Call for Discernment (Part 3)  |
John MacArthur |
A Critique of the Evangelical Doctrine of Solo Scriptura  |
Keith Mathison |
A Mind in Love with God  |
John Piper |
A Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Fundamentalism  |
9Marks.org (March/April 2008) - What can we learn from the Christian Fundamentalists? |
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing  |
Phillip R. Johnson - How Charles Finney's Theology Ravaged the Evangelical Movement |
American Cheese – Exported  |
Dan Borvan |
American Protestants and the Problem of Tradition (MP3)  |
Ken Myers |
An Evangelical Response to "An Evangelical Manifesto"  |
Al Mohler |
An Interview With Dr. J. I. Packer on Modern Evangelicalism  |
(Founders) |
An Intimate Dinner: What is a Personal Relationship with Jesus?  |
Mark Noll -- A response to David Gregory's novel "Dinner With a Perfect Stranger" |
An Overview of Contemporary Theology  |
Dr. C. Matthew McMahon |
Another Gospel  |
John Cheesman |
Awakening the Evangelical Conscience  |
Richard J. Mouw |
B. B. Warfield on Arminians and Evangelicals (MP3)  |
Dr. Kim Riddlebarger |
Calvinism and Evangelical Arminianism  |
John L. Girardeau |
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. " |
Changes in Evangelicalism Over the Last 40 Years (mp3)  |
Wheaton Alumni Symposium with Mark Noll, Nathan Hatch, and John Piper |
Charles Atlas with a Halo: America's Billy Graham  |
Grant Wacker |
Charles Finneys Influence on American Evangelicalism  |
Bob DeWaay |
Christian Gravitas in a Narcissistic Age  |
J. I. Packer |
Christianity According to Evangelicalism  |
David Wells |
Christianity Astray: Is "New Evangelicalism" Really Pseudo-Evangelicalism?  |
Phil Johnson |
Christianity, Liberalism and the New Evangelicalism  |
Carl Trueman |
Christless Christianity (MP3)  |
Dr. Michael Horton |
Decisional Regeneration  |
Tim Challies |
Deconstructing the (Christian?) Subculture Part I  |
Bob Thune |
Deconstructing the (Christian?) Subculture Part II  |
Bob Thune |
Defining Evangelicalism  |
Wheaton |
Defining Evangelicalism's Boundaries in Ministry (.pdf)  |
James Sweeney |
Defining the Boundaries of Evangelical Spirituality  |
Donald S. Whitney |
Demise of Gospel Preaching In The Modern Evangelical Church  |
Bob Dewway (.pdf) |
Do Evangelicals Have a Future?  |
Collin Hansen |
Do We Really Need to Wage War Against False Doctrine?  |
Phil Johnson |
Ecclesiola Ecclesia  |
D. M. Lloyd-Jones |
Evan-jello-calism  |
Phil Johnson |
Evangelical & Reformed  |
Steve Hays Commenting on Lee Irons' post on Reformed Identity |
Evangelical Christians "more tolerant" than Previously Thought  |
J.W. Hendryx |
Evangelicalism  |
Sam Storms |
Evangelicalism  |
Paul Mizzi |
Evangelicalism in America  |
Frontline Interview with Mark Noll |
Evangelicalism in critical condition  |
Phil Johnson |
Evangelicalism Today: Symposium: Six Evangelicals Assess Their Movement  |
Russell Moore, John Franke, Darryl Hart, Michael Horton, David Lyle Jeffrey, and Denny Burk |
Evangelicalisms Insecure Calvinists  |
Gregory Johnson |
Evangelicalism, Culture, and Politics  |
Princeton Revisions interview with George Marsden |
Evangelicalism: A Brief Definition  |
David Hilborn (.pdf) |
Evangelicalism: A Brief Definition  |
David Hilborn (.html) |
Evangelicals and Others  |
Timothy George |
Evangelistic Malpractice  |
William MacDonald Conversions that do not stick |
Evangelistic Malpractice  |
William MacDonald - On conversions that do not stick |
Four Kinds of Universalism  |
John M. Brentnall |
Fundamentalism Vs. Reformed Theology  |
monergism.com |
Gospel Lite: Tastes Great; Less Filling  |
Phil Johnson |
Grace Alone: An Evangelical Problem?  |
by Kim Riddlebarger |
Hell's Best Kept Secret...the Law  |
Ray Comfort (.pdf) |
Holy Men and Pragmatism  |
The Jollyblogger |
How Does Doctrine Affect Evangelism?  |
The Divergent Paths of Nettleton and Finney |
How might one define Fundamentalism?  |
Dr. Sam Storms |
How Would You Define an Evangelical?  |
PBS Interview with Mark Noll |
Hyper-Evangelism: Another Gospel, Though A Mighty Power  |
John Kennedy (1819-1884) - A critique of the Arminian message and method of evangelism |
If I'm an Evangelical, What Am I?  |
Timothy George |
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& |
J. Gresham Machen's Response to Modernism  |
John Piper |
Just As I Am (essay on Billy Graham)  |
Mark Noll |
Justification and Evangelical Christianity: A Historical Concern (.pdf)  |
Philip H. Eveson, Reformation & Revival 6.4 (Fall 1997): 49-66. |
Law and Gospel, an Important Distinction in Evangelism  |
Massimo Lorenzini |
Manly Men  |
Phil Johnson |
Matters of the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 2)  |
Mark Thompson |
Minding the Evangelical Mind  |
Mark Noll |
Modern Evangelism Unmasked  |
W. F. Bell |
MY EVANGELISTIC CHECKLIST  |
David Barshinger |
Natural Vs. Supernatural Religion  |
David Wells |
No Place for Complacency  |
David Wells on The Courage to Be Protestant. |
Not So Exceptional After All: American evangelicalism reassessed  |
David Bebbington |
On Churchless Evangelicals (pt 1)  |
Dr. Scott Clark |
On Churchless Evangelicals (pt 2)  |
Dr. Scott Clark |
On Churchless Evangelicals (Pt 3)  |
Dr. Scott Clark |
Paleo- and Neo-Reformed  |
Darryl G. Hart |
Peace (with Evangelicalism) in Our Time  |
R. Scott Clark |
Reckoning With The Past in an Anti-Historical Age  |
Carl R. Trueman |
Recovering God's Sovereign Grace The Arminian Captivity of the Modern Evangelical Church  |
Sung Wook Chung |
Review of D. G. Harts Deconstructing Evangelicalism  |
Rev. Charles R. Biggs |
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?" |
Salad Bar Sanctuaries  |
James M. Boice |
Saving the heart: What is an evangelical? (Part 1)  |
Mark Thompson |
Shouldn't We Evangelise Instead of Arguing About Theology  |
William Harrell |
Some More Thoughts on Effeminate Evangelicalism  |
Phil Johnson |
Sounding Out the Idols of Church Growth  |
Os Guinness |
Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, & the Future of Denominationalism  |
Trevin Wax summaries of all the lectures at the Union University conference |
Survey of Christian Faith & Practice (.pdf)  |
White Horse Inn |
The 'Alpha' and the 'Christianity Explored' Course  |
Robin Weeks - Among Christians Alpha has earned a rapidly spreading reputation based on its effectiveness. |
The Biblical Attitude to Erroneous Teaching  |
David P. Kingdon M.A.,B.D. |
The Bleeding Of The Evangelical Church  |
David F. Wells |
The Born-Again Mind: Harold John Ockenga  |
George Marsden |
The Canterbury Trial  |
Gerald Bray on Rowan Williams and Evangelicals |
The coming evangelical collapse  |
Michael Spencer |
The Deadly Dangers of Moralism  |
John MacArthur |
The Death of Protestant America: A Political Theory of the Protestant Mainline  |
Joseph Bottum |
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 |
The Evangelical Crackup  |
DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK |
The Evangelical Mind Today  |
Mark Noll |
The Gospel and Evangelicalism: An Assessment  |
William Webster |
The Importance of Being More Than Earnest  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Intrusion of Psychology into Christian Theology  |
Don Matzat - Part 1. Sin and Self-Esteem; Part 2. Encountering "Encounter"; Part 3. Psychological Mysticism |
The Marcions have landed! A warning for evangelicals  |
Carl Trueman |
The Narcissism of Evangelical Latitudinarianism  |
R. Scott Clark |
The New Gospel of Today  |
L. R. Shelton, Jr. |
The New Gospel: Appealing But Not Revealing  |
Jim Elliff |
The Rise of the Evangelicals  |
Mark Noll -- Interview in Christianity Today |
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: A Symposium  |
Grant Wacker |
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. |
The Survival of Evangelicalism  |
R. Scott Clark |
The Thirteen Critical Problems Facing Evangelicalism  |
Michael Spencer |
The Uneasy Relationship between Reformed Christianity and American Evangelicalism  |
Michael S. Horton |
The Unity of Faith: Evangelicalism & “Mere Christianity”  |
Timothy George |
Thirty Reflections on Scripture, Our Standards, and our History  |
William Shishko |
Three Ways of Relating to American Religion  |
R. Scott Clark |
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. |
Understanding American Evangelicals  |
Mark Noll |
Viewpoint: Dr. Michael S. Horton  |
Horton Interviewed in Washington Post |
What are the Risks for Evangelicals?  |
Tim Keller |
What is an Evangelical?  |
Kevin Reed |
What Think Ye of the Promise Keepers?  |
Robert Newton, John Armstrong & Kim Riddlebarger |
What's Wrong with Evangelical Theology?  |
Peter J. Leithart |
When is an Evangelical?  |
Matthias Media |
When We Talk About Heresy, Let's Be Honest  |
Tom Ascol |
Why Do We Wander? Church Attendance in an Apathetic Age  |
Eric Landry |
Why Evangelicals are Returning to Rome: The Abandonment of Sola Scriptura as a Formal Principle  |
Bob DeWaay |
Worship: Evangelical or Reformed?  |
W. Robert Godfrey |
Worshiping the Lamb or Entertaining the Sheep?  |
Bryan D. Spinks |