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To: Lee N. Field
In the article, it's “we’re not like THOSE evangelicals,” meaning that the CT crew are Evangelicals, just a different subset of the Evangelical community from others. It helps if one reads more than just the headline.

The author has a valid, if obvious, point - the difference of opinion reflects class differences among Evangelicals - but what about his conclusion:

Are we witnessing the implosion of evangelicalism? Evangelicalism as we know it has its roots in the eighteenth century but really took shape in the nineteenth, so I guess two centuries or so was a pretty good run. My sense is that evangelicalism has always been more sociologically than theologically determined, and I suppose it’s appropriate that sociology is now the engine of its demolition.

11 posted on 12/25/2019 8:12:39 AM PST by x
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To: x
Sociology is the engine of its demolition. I suppose he means a sociologism.
34 posted on 12/27/2019 7:40:22 AM PST by cornelis
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