Defining the “new” evangelicalism is part of the greater problem of defining evangelicalism itself. Usually evangelicalism means a Protestant view of the “good news” (from the Greek word euangelion) of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Timothy Weber said, “Defining evangelicalism has become one of the biggest problems in American religious historiography.”1 Mark Noll is undoubtedly correct when he says, “The term ‘evangelical’ is a plastic one.”2 George Marsden sees no fewer than