tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post8722069735489651106..comments2024-03-15T20:15:34.428+13:00Comments on ξενος: Is Evangelicalism a Mental Disease?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-10517334064210451282010-12-16T12:54:15.231+13:002010-12-16T12:54:15.231+13:00Jonathan,
I think the wonderful term has been hij...Jonathan, <br />I think the wonderful term has been hijacked by the extreme right wing of the church as you mentioned. I think the one issue that biblical scholars have with self defining as "evangelicals" is the close association of biblical inerrancy with the evangelical movement. It is tough to remain an inerrantist and deal with biblical criticism, and self identifying as an evangelical often carries with it the unfortunate corollary of inerrantist.Keith Reichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10679244684706964812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-76163712546572065012010-12-16T09:45:31.171+13:002010-12-16T09:45:31.171+13:00Hi Tom, thanks for the links and the comment, no s...Hi Tom, thanks for the links and the comment, no shame in plugging a good resource!<br /><br />Tim, I agree with you if that is what it is used for, but my experience (used to be) more that the term provided a bridge between different denomination and was a way of emphasising commonality rather than excluding others. Should we just not define ourselves at all? <br /><br />Justin, yes I think the USA scene is a large part at fault for associating a particular political stance with evangelicalism, it used to be the case in the UK that evangelicals were more left than right, (how could they not be if they read the gospels??!!). However in NZ it is more like the states, and I wonder if it is because in the colonial environment non-conformist christians which would have been anti-establishment in the old world tend to become the establishment in the new.Jonathan Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18295840754661890186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-20462076486697694312010-12-15T14:17:33.317+13:002010-12-15T14:17:33.317+13:00Hi,
when I saw this post I was reminded of the di...Hi,<br /><br />when I saw this post I was reminded of the discussion by the Jubilee Centre on the term. You can see their Cambridge paper on it here:<br />http://www.jubilee-centre.org/document.php?id=207<br /><br />Their conclusion that the term is worth keeping:<br />http://www.jubilee-centre.org/document.php?id=208<br /><br />and they had a Radio interview on the issue:<br />http://www.jubilee-centre.org/resources/bbc_radio_4_sunday_interview<br /><br />I'm a bit of a fan of the Jubilee Centre (and their Cambridge papers) as they discuss a lot of the issues that I'm interested in so please excuse the shameless plug!Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10029043804480640430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-52371600562367507452010-12-14T14:14:30.692+13:002010-12-14T14:14:30.692+13:00I consider myself an Evangelical, though I've ...I consider myself an Evangelical, though I've learned that means a different thing in the USA than it does in Europe. The way I mean it is to label a group who shares similar commitments or views on salvation and evangelism. I've heard someone describe themselves as a "Catholic-Evangelical." I was a bit perplexed, and too young to have asked what they meant by that. I think it is a term which has been hijacked in the same way fundamentalism has (for example the political term "fundamentalism of the left"). <br />I certainly don't vote the way most "evangelicals" do though.Justinhttp://www.otecology.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689838439428844486.post-64322322325417702022010-12-14T13:12:46.787+13:002010-12-14T13:12:46.787+13:00The first time I am aware of having heard the term...The first time I am aware of having heard the term, when I was a 19 year-old University student, it was used to define an "in group" (Evangelicals or sometimes only "Conservative Evangelicals") and an out-group. I was in the out-group, because I belonged to the wrong Christian society and was friends with the wrong people. I dislike the word. But then I dislike all self-descriptors that are used primarily (or even much) to keep undesirables out. <br /><br />If people must have in-groups and out-groups label me OUT, please (and allow me to quietly remember that my Lord was also outed Heb 13:11ff.)Tim Bulkeleyhttp://bigbible.org/sansbloguenoreply@blogger.com