A Future for Evangelicalism?
The Future of Evangelicalism? A Reconstructive Proposal for 21st Century Believers:
After entering the 21st century, evangelicalism has clearly entered the foggy zone. After the epidemic, it became even weaker and weaker. The evangelical movement usually has four typical characteristics: biblicism, crucicentrism, proselytism and evangelism-oriented activism; is it really the whole of Christianity?
Is the Evangelical Church in irreparable decline? What key factors will lead to a vibrant resurgeance in Evangelicalism?
Is there some key Biblical principle we've been missing?
The Evangelical movement has historically been characterized by:
- Biblicism (sola scriptura emphasis)
- Crucicentrism (atonement focus)
- Conversionism (conversion focus)
- Evangelistic-focused activism
While this may be how Evangelicalism has been typically characterized to date, is this really all that Christianity is meant to offer?
Dr. Clement Wen picks up where thinkers like Stanley J. Grenz and the Robert E. Webber left off. In the 1990s, both Christian thinkers were valiantly trying to re-envision and rethink Evangelicalism for a postmodern world—and yet, thirty years later, we’re still within the general trajectory of where they believed Evangelicalism needed to go, but socially and culturally, our whole world is also at a very different place today than the world they were facing.
As a corrective response, the above mentioned historical ingredients of Evangelicalism will be critically engaged towards a reconstructive proposal intended to internally renew the Evangelical movement towards something more holistic—this, without seeking to become “post-evangelical” or “post-conservative” (self-identifiers that some who have given up on Evangelicalism have already embraced). Instead, we’re proposing a re-constructive way forward for Evangelicalism.
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