The reality is that Chalke, and many others who are following in his footsteps, are in a battle for the heart
of modern evangelicalism.
But it makes more sense to date the emergence
of modern evangelicalism to an act of hymn composition by Charles Wesley.
«2 The diversity which Henry, as one
of modern evangelicalism's founders, laments has been noted more positively by Richard Quebedeaux in his book The Young Evangelicals - Revolution in Orthodoxy.3 In this book Quebedeaux offers a typology for the conservative wing of the Protestant church, differentiating Separatist Fundamentalism (Bob Jones University, Carl McIntire) from Open Fundamentalism (Biola College, Hal Lindsey), Establishment Evangelicalism (Christianity Today, Billy Graham) from the New Evangelicalism (Fuller Theological Seminary, Mark Hatfield), and all of these from the Charismatic Movement which cuts into orthodox, as well as ecumenical liberal and Roman Catholic constituencies.
So much
of modern Evangelicalism is so far from the teachings of Jesus it is a totally different religion.
I've been reading the monastics recently, and it strikes me that while much
of modern evangelicalism echoes their teachings on self - control and self - denial when it comes to sexuality, we tend to gloss over a lot what this great cloud of monastic witnesses has to say about self - control and self - denial in other areas of life — like materialism, food, relationships, and hospitality.
Not exact matches
It would prove to be a snapshot
of a decadelong friendship with one
of the most unexpected advocates
of modern - day
evangelicalism.
I always attributed this disconnect to my general frustrations with
modern evangelicalism — that it's been hijacked by the Republican Party, that it's in a perpetual state
of defensiveness and «wartime» posturing, that it has closed itself off to science and independent thought, that it has lost sight
of the message
of Jesus regarding the Kingdom
of God, that it has become commercialized and shallow — all the things we «emergers» like to write books and articles about.
It overlooks the fact that the original or classical
evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation
of concerns which in the
modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal
of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation
of manners, and social reform.
Though he's not as well known as some other evangelists
of his era, the legacy
of Smith Wigglesworth has had a major influence on
modern Evangelicalism.
Debate over the precise implication
of Scripture's inspiration has continued almost unabated within
modern evangelicalism.
Hubbard is echoing Edward J. Carnell, his predecessor as president
of Fuller Seminary, whose book The Case for Orthodox Theology is perhaps the classic statement on
modern evangelicalism:
Carl F. H. Henry's The Uneasy Conscience
of Modern Fundamentalism was certainly the key document in
evangelicalism's emerging social conscience.
Luhrmann speaks
of Evangelicalism's God as a «
modern God.»
For this reason he correctly treats both the older fundamentalism (still preserved in some quarters) and the more
modern evangelicalism under the same label (offensive as it is) as the same system
of thought.
Here we raise the question
of the precise relationship
of evangelicalism and fundamentalism as historical phenomena, I do not mean here to give any credence to what I predict will be the common evangelical response to Barr — that he fails to distinguish appropriately a
modern enlightened
evangelicalism from a more benighted fundamentalism.
Barr's book, however, serves notice that the minor adjustments
of modern postfundamentalist
evangelicalism are unequal to the task.
But he's also become one
of the more controversial figures in
evangelicalism after releasing the book Love Wins, which challenged conventional,
modern understandings about hell and the afterlife.
The heroes
of modern - day
evangelicalism, from scholars like N.T. Wright to pastors like Rob Bell, are passionately and unapologetically contextual textualists, working diligently with a host
of ancient literary and archaeological sources to make sense
of biblical texts as they would have been understood in their day.
The former pastors
of (unrelated) churches called Mars Hill are two
of the most polarizing and controversial figures in
modern evangelicalism, both on different ends
of the theological spectrum.
For many years, the combination
of the Old and New Testaments have come to be interpreted as
modern evangelicalism.
Knowingly or unknowingly,
modern evangelicalism has not fully subscribed to the death
of the law — leaving an inevitable punitive effect for leaders and lay people alike who fall into sin.
He uses Carl F. H. Henry's concerns about the direction
of evangelicalism in the years just before the current era
of conversations about mission, missions, missional, and missiology all began in our brave post-
modern or late -
modern world.
The missional approach is different than
modern evangelicalism, particularly in this region, because «the work
of salvation, in its full sense, is 1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; 2) about the present, not simply the future; and 3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.»