What is an Evangelical?

What is an Evangelical?

That’s the latest question in the Washington Post/Newsweek forum On Faith. The question is brought about by the publication of An Evangelical Manifesto. Respondents include N.T. Wright, Cal Thomas, Chuck Colson, and Martin Marty.

This topic about the meaning of the label "Evangelical" has been floating around for a while. In fact, over a year ago, I posted about the same issue. You can read my previous post about whether the label Evangelical has lost it's meaning.

Here is an excerpt from that post:

The USA Today has an interesting article on what it means to identify oneself as an Evangelical.

Who's an evangelical? Until last year the answer seemed clear: Evangelical was the label of choice of Christians with conservative views on politics, economics and Biblical morality.

Now the word may be losing its moorings, sliding toward the same linguistic demise that "fundamentalist" met decades ago because it has been misunderstood, misappropriated and maligned.

USAToday -Evangelical: Can the 'E-word' be saved?

(ht: Tullian Tchividjian)

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