a negative answer diminishes the urgency of the missionary cause. Evangelicals like Erickson do not intend to diminish that urgency, and their view is not in the same category with Hick or MacDonald. Those evangelicals insist that the salvation of anyone apart from the preaching of Christ would be the exception rather than the rule and that preaching Christ to all is utterly important. Nevertheless, there is a felt difference in the urgency when one believes that preaching the gospel is absolutely