Jan
13
2010
9Marks e-Journal: The New Evangelical Liberalism
Lots of good reading in the latest 9Marks ejournal (also available in pdf).
Here’s the list of articles and reviews:
THE MINDSET OF THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
What kind of pastor is susceptible to liberalism? One who loves self, and even the sheep, more than he loves the Good Shepherd.
By Michael Lawrence
The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Why do evangelical academics so crave worldly acceptance?
By Carl Trueman
Air Conditioning Hell: How Liberalism Happens
Liberalism happens when we try to save Christianity from itself.
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
The Neo-Liberal Stealth Offensive
The gospel’s most dangerous adversaries are not raving atheists. They are church leaders with gentle, friendly, pious demeanors.
By Phil Johnson
CASE STUDIES IN THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
What’s Happening to InterVarsity?
A long-term InterVarsity vet takes a hard look at some disturbing trends in this historically faithful campus ministry.
By J. Mack Stiles
Is the God of the Missional Gospel Too Small?
When we say that a gospel that addresses systemic injustice is “bigger” than a gospel of “sin management,” what are we saying about the worth of God’s glory?
By Jonathan Leeman
What Would Athanasius Do: Is The Great Tradition Enough?
Is this new rallying point for Christian unity all it’s made out to be? Not if you want to preserve the gospel.
By Greg Gilbert
Notes from the Future: Evangelical Liberalism in the UK
Want a sneak peek at the future of evangelicalism? Then listen in as a British brother takes a look at the past and present of liberalism in the UK.
By Mike Ovey
Social Gospel Redux?
Are some evangelicals preaching a renewed social gospel?
By Russell D. Moore
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
What Can We Learn from the History of Liberalism?
Historic liberalism was a response—the wrong one—to Christianity’s credibility crisis.
By Gregory A. Wills
Who Exactly Are the Evangelicals?
Is an evangelical simply “anyone who likes Billy Graham,” as one historian put it?
By Michael Horton
More Than a Feeling: The Emotions and Christian Devotion
Casting an eye toward recent evangelical history, Darryl Hart suggests that a wrong emphasis on emotions has been—and can still be—a path to liberalism.
By D. G. Hart
Evangelism and Social Action: A Tale of Two TrajectoriesWhat do twentieth century ecumenism and twenty-first century evangelicalism have in common? More than you might think.
By Bobby Jamieson
MISCELLANEOUS BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review: The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church, by Tony and Felicity Dale and George Barna
Reviewed by Aaron Menikoff
Book Review: Why Join a Small Church?, by John Benton
Reviewed by Aaron Menikoff
9 Comments
This’ll keep me busy for awhile. Thanks, Justin.
I was just reading John Piper’s excellent biographical sketch of J. Gresham Machen and was amazed at how Machen’s words (especially from his book “Christianity & Liberalism”) read as if they were being written in 2010; addressing the very same issues then that are facing the church TODAY! I look forward to reading this journal.
I apologize for being anonymous, but I am forced to do so. In regards to the IV article, Campus Crusade for Christ is heading along a similar path. They subversively changed their leadership structure to one that is fully egalitarian, and they fired a team director who vocally opposed it by calling the national staff to repentance. I would say that IV now is what CCC will be in 10-15 years.
“They subversively changed their leadership structure to one that is fully egalitarian, and they fired a team director who vocally opposed it by calling the national staff to repentance.”
Then Campus Crusade has definitely become liberal.
It’s so sad that Campus Crusade joined IVF in becoming egalitarian. I wonder if Navigators is egalitarian too. I hope not.
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I think some of what Chandler said in his “De-churched” sermon at DG is helpful in light of all this. I rememeber him saying, “you’d better decide right now where you stand on the Scriptures! None of you is going to wake up tomorrow morning and say, ‘I’m selling out today!’ It will be slow and gradual chipping away.” My guess is a good deal of these folks don’t even realise they have sold out or are teetering dangerously on the edge of doing so. Let’s be discerning but let’s also be gracious in seeking to draw back into orthadoxy those who have (most likely unintentionally) strayed. God help us all. Maybe that’s overstating it. I dunnno.
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Thanks, Justin, for the links. A couple of the articles were great, but I noticed a common, troubling feature among most of them. They accuse all those they label liberals as conceding to the prevailing dispositions of secular society and abandoning Scripture as God’s authoritative revelation. In reality, many Protestants, even evangelicals, are leaning in what might be considered a liberal direction on certain issues because they have difficulty reconciling tensions between fundamental biblical truths. In these cases, at issue is not accepting worldly opinion over the Word of God, but wrestling with what to make of apparent contradictions of truth.