theology. The work remains a fundamental challenge to American evangelicalism to keep a strong sense of theological identity. A criticism of a somewhat different nature is set out by Noll. Armed with a masterly knowledge of the history of American evangelicalism. Noll suggests that evangelicalism is, as a matter of fact, quite well served by its theologians, and points to leading writers such as James I. Packer and Thomas C. Oden to make his point. The real problem is not that evangelicalism has
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