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Zondervan has a new book coming out this month: Four Views On The Spectrum of Evangelicalism, edited by Andrew David Naselli and Collin Hansen.

The four contributors are Kevin Bauder (Fundamentalism), Albert Mohler (Confessional Evangelicalism), John Stackhouse (Generic Evangelicalism), and Roger Olson (Postconservative Evangelicalism).

You can read online Collin Hansen’s introduction and several pages from Kevin Bauder’s essay advocating the fundamentalist perspective.

Albert Mohler recently posted an excerpt from the opening pages of his chapter.

He explains why this issue is important:

The challenge of defining evangelical identity remains one of the most important challenges for the movement—and one that entails no small amount of controversy. This much is clear—there is no way for any responsible evangelical to avoid this challenge. To do so is to consign the word to eventual meaninglessness, and to deny evangelicals the right and responsibility to define themselves in theological terms. That is far too high a price to pay.

And he explains his own approach to defining evangelicalism:

In my view, evangelical definition must be placed within three distinct but overlapping contexts. We should consider evangelicalism in historical, phenomenological, and normative senses. None of these can stand alone, and I will argue that all three are needed in order to understand evangelicalism and to consider the question of evangelical identity.

An important discussion worth having.

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