Justin Taylor over at Between Two Worlds has this great post from the 9Marks Journal. Lots of good reading in the latest 9Marks ejournal (also available in pdf).
Here’s the list of articles and reviews:
THE MINDSET OF THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
How to Become a Liberal Without Attending Harvard Divinity School
What kind of pastor is susceptible to liberalism? One who loves self, and even the sheep, more than he loves the Good Shepherd.
By Michael Lawrence
The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
Why do evangelical academics so crave worldly acceptance?
By Carl Trueman
Air Conditioning Hell: How Liberalism Happens
Liberalism happens when we try to save Christianity from itself.
By R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
The Neo-Liberal Stealth Offensive
The gospel’s most dangerous adversaries are not raving atheists. They are church leaders with gentle, friendly, pious demeanors.
By Phil Johnson
CASE STUDIES IN THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
What’s Happening to InterVarsity?
A long-term InterVarsity vet takes a hard look at some disturbing trends in this historically faithful campus ministry.
By J. Mack Stiles
Is the God of the Missional Gospel Too Small?
When we say that a gospel that addresses systemic injustice is “bigger” than a gospel of “sin management,” what are we saying about the worth of God’s glory?
By Jonathan Leeman
What Would Athanasius Do: Is The Great Tradition Enough?
Is this new rallying point for Christian unity all it’s made out to be? Not if you want to preserve the gospel.
By Greg Gilbert
Notes from the Future: Evangelical Liberalism in the UK
Want a sneak peek at the future of evangelicalism? Then listen in as a British brother takes a look at the past and present of liberalism in the UK.
By Mike Ovey
Social Gospel Redux?
Are some evangelicals preaching a renewed social gospel?
By Russell D. Moore
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEW EVANGELICAL LIBERALISM
What Can We Learn from the History of Liberalism?
Historic liberalism was a response—the wrong one—to Christianity’s credibility crisis.
By Gregory A. Wills
Who Exactly Are the Evangelicals?
Is an evangelical simply “anyone who likes Billy Graham,” as one historian put it?
By Michael Horton
More Than a Feeling: The Emotions and Christian Devotion
Casting an eye toward recent evangelical history, Darryl Hart suggests that a wrong emphasis on emotions has been—and can still be—a path to liberalism.
By D. G. Hart
Evangelism and Social Action: A Tale of Two Trajectories
What do twentieth century ecumenism and twenty-first century evangelicalism have in common? More than you might think.
By Bobby Jamieson
MISCELLANEOUS BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review: The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today’s Church, by Tony and Felicity Dale and George Barna
Reviewed by Aaron Menikoff
Book Review: Why Join a Small Church?, by John Benton
Reviewed by Aaron Menikoff
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Really good stuff, Steve! I had a key leader listening to Yale lectures online thinking, “This is insightful.” I went on the sight (It was crap) & cleared it up, but I was troubled that I had to show him that it was crap. The warm fuzzy and hazy Brian McClaren stuff is deadly!
Great articles that go way below the surface on the issues they discuss. The authors are also careful to write the truth in love. That’s hard to do, but they manage it well.
Just read “Is the God of the Missional Gospel too Small” and found it profoundly disappointing. Without quotations or even names of those critiquing I wonder if he is really engaging the actual thought of missional thinkers of a variety of stripes, including Guder, Van Gelder, Roxburgh, Fitch, Hirsch and the like, or is he just criticizing at caricature of “missional” pastors that he knows. Missional thought grounded in a deep understanding of the missio Dei is far more profound than just a turn to “social action”.
There is in missional thought a critique of all our received ways of being the church. Are they truly Gospel, or have they been affected by the historical contexts in which they have been formed? Then answer is yes. I wonder if much of the neo-Reformed entrenchment and arguments against all manner of things missional is a reaction rather than engagement with the genuine insights of missional thinking. It seems they have mistaken the form that Reformed polity and practice have taken since the reformation as the “biblical” paradigm. I think they need to take their own positionality within history seriously and enter into conversation with the entire Christian tradition. Calvin did not say “Christianisme, c’est moi!”
Instead of engaging the material and thought they seem to shout “Liberalism!” and think the argument is over.
Rob Bell and Brian McLaren do not a missional movement make.
Thank you. Screed over.
Richard,
I agree. The article was very disappointing. It’s the only one I read. To say that the “missional” mindset is essentially a gateway drug into full fledged liberalism is a joke. I think(maybe), the author was referring to McClaren and his ilk…I hope so. Lots of good solid Bible teachers are referring to themselves as missional churches.
I truly believe that we have reached the point where technology has become one with our world, and I am fairly certain that we have passed the point of no return in our relationship with technology.
I don’t mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside… I just hope that as memory gets less expensive, the possibility of transferring our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It’s a fantasy that I daydream about almost every day.
I found this article useful in a paper I am writing at university.
Thanks
Bernice Franklin
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