What Does It Mean to Be an Evangelical? With Andrew Atherstone and David Ceri Jones
Description
A few months ago, a prominent American scholar, Matthew Avery Sutton, published an article arguing there is no “through line” from Christians of the past to today’s post-WWII evangelicals. In order to assess this argument, Kevin invited two scholars of the evangelical movement to join him: Andrew Atherstone from Oxford in England and David Ceri Jones from the University of Aberystwyth in Wales. Together, they explore where the term evangelical comes from, whether the thing we call “evangelicalism” is a recent invention, why people call themselves “evangelical,” the difference between Stott and Lloyd-Jones, the difference between evangelicalism in America, in England, and in Wales, and whether the word “evangelical” is worth retaining. Plus, you’ll hear Kevin’s fantastic idea for Andrew to adopt the slogan “Make Oxford Great Again.”
Chapters:
0:00 intro & Sponsors
4:00 Evangelical Identity
17:45 The Through-line to Evangelicalism
26:42 Evangelicalism Abroad
53:15 The Balancing Act
1:01:43 What is an Evangelical?
1:03:27 Until Next Time…
Books & Everything:
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany
Here We Stand
Puritan Treasures for Today
Westminster Theological Seminary Biblical Language Certificate
Redefining the History and Historiography on American Evangelicalism in the Era of the Religious Right
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