Thus, this book cannot hope to argue successfully that all such reaction against evangelical Christianity’s current situation is ill-founded (yet some certainly is) or that all such reaction is unwarranted (though some certainly is). The book aims instead to address two fundamental issues that, like a thread, run through these manifestations of what I will call the “evangelical identity crisis.” I identify and deal with these in the conviction that only when these matters are faced can evangelicals
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