The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Carl Trueman

Author:Carl Trueman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Ecclesiology, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780802405746
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2010-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. See David W. Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (London: Unwin Hyman, 1989). A good collection of essays interacting with Bebbington’s proposals is Michael A. G. Haykin and Kenneth J. Stewart, eds., The Emergence of Evangelicalism: Exploring Historical Continuities (Nottingham, U.K.: Apollos, 2008).

2. A Catholic might argue at this point that this problem has been part of Protestantism from the start: abandon the teaching magisterium of Rome, and you are left with nothing to stop the multiplication of sects. Such criticism is valid perhaps when it comes to the hostile application of labels (as in a Catholic writer lumping both Calvin and Servetus together as “Protestant”), but I am here thinking of self-conscious identity. I think of myself as Presbyterian: I can point to a certain set of doctrinal standards and ecclesiastical principles that define the term. An Anabaptist can do the same with her church, as can a Baptist or a Methodist. We each know our distinctive histories and doctrines. This is not the case with the rather nebulous concept that is evangelicalism.

3. “The Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written and is therefore inerrant in the autographs. God is a Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each an uncreated person, one in essence, equal in power and glory.” http://www.etsjets.org/about.

4. These affirmations are embodied in the Cambridge Declaration: http://www. alliancenet.org/partner/Article_Display_Page/0.PTID307086_CHID

798774_CIID1411364.00.html.

5. In the wider culture, even these exclusions are now negotiable: In 2005, Time listed Father Richard John Neuhaus, the well-known Catholic intellectual, as one of North America’s 25 most influential evangelicals. The list also included Rick Warren, Brian McLaren, and J.I. Packer, indicating precisely the irrelevance of significant doctrinal criteria for being designated an evangelical. http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050207/index.html.

6. Hodge’s comment reads as follows: “When in Berlin the writer often attended Schleiermacher’s church. The hymns to be sung were printed on slips of paper and distributed at the door. They were always evangelical and spiritual to an eminent degree, filled with praise and gratitude to the Redeemer. Tholuck said that Schleiermacher, when sitting in the evening with his family, would often say, ‘Hush, children; let us sing a hymn of praise to Christ.’ Can we doubt that he is singing those praises now? To whomsoever Christ is God, St. John assures us, Christ is a Saviour.” Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), II, 440.

7. See, for example, John R. Franke, Manifold Witness (Nashville: Abingdon, 2009); Brian D. McLaren, A New Kind of Christianity (New York: Harper-One, 2010).

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