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Evangelicals: Who They Have Been, Are Now, and Could Be is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

indeed appears as disorganized as a kaleidoscope. One might wonder why evangelicalism is ever regarded as a unified entity at all. Nonetheless, once we recognize the wide diversity within evangelicalism and the dangers of generalization, we may properly speak of evangelicalism as a single phenomenon. The meaningfulness of evangelicalism as such a “denomination” is suggested by the fact that today among Protestants the lines between evangelical and nonevangelical often seem more significant than do
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