define the future of evangelicalism. This predicament is ironic. As descendants of American revival movements, evangelicals highlighted the supernatural regenerating work of Jesus Christ in their own lives while firmly adhering to the ecumenical creeds and Reformation distinctives. At the turn of the twentieth century this coalition led the reaction to the modernist attempt to desupernaturalize Christianity by focusing attention on the qualitative difference between nature and grace. J. Gresham Machen