about it at times as though it were a single, more or less unified phenomenon. The outstanding evangelical historian Timothy L. Smith has been most effective at pointing out the dangers of this usage. Smith and his students have repeatedly remarked on how misleading it is to speak of evangelicalism as a whole, especially when one prominent aspect of evangelicalism is then usually taken to typify the whole. Evangelicalism, says Smith, is more like a mosaic or, suggesting even less of an overall pattern,