Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be (Biblia.com)

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The past, present, and future of a movement in crisis. What exactly do we mean when we say “evangelical”? How should we understand this many-sided world religious phenomenon? How do recent American politics change that understanding? Three scholars have been vital to our understanding of evangelicalism for the last forty years: Mark Noll, whose Scandal of the Evangelical Mind identified an...

The following reflections on how to conceptualize evangelicalism are taken from an introduction to a book, Evangelicalism and Modern America (Eerdmans, 1984), and are reprinted here by permission of Eerdmans. The book grew out of a conference organized by Mark Noll and Nathan Hatch and held at Wheaton College in 1983. In the part of the introduction reprinted here, I addressed an essential issue that remains very relevant for trying to define

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