The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity: Roots, Consequences, and Resolutions

Sewell, Keith C.

ISBN 10: 1498238777 / ISBN 13: 9781498238779

Published by Wipf & Stock Pub, 2016

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308 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crisis of Evangelical Christianity: Roots, Consequences, and Resolutions
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498238777
• ISBN 13: 9781498238779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.59 kilograms

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Synopsis

In the broad context of Christianity as it developed over two millennia, and with special reference to the last three centuries, this discussion finds that Evangelicalism has repeatedly offered a reduced and distorted understanding of the faith. The evangelical outlook is much less scriptural than evangelicals generally assume. When it comes to appreciating the order of creation, our calling to develop integral Christian thinking and living, the religious significance of culture, and the coming of the kingdom, reductionist Evangelicalism struggles with its only rarely acknowledged deficiencies. As a result, we have all too often ended up with a Christianity shorn of its cosmic scope and wide cultural implications, and restricted to institutional church life and the cultivation of private spiritual experience. The consequences are frequently enervating and corrosive. Without disregarding what is important in the past, evangelicals are here challenged to take the Bible much more seriously, and thereby transcend the limitations of their habitual reductionism. Evangelicals are encouraged to embrace an integral and full-orbed understanding of Christian discipleship that will equip the faithful to address the deep and complex challenges of the twenty-first century.

About the Author

Keith C. Sewell is Professor of History Emeritus at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. He is author of Herbert Butterfield and the Interpretation of History (2005). He was born in England and lives in Australia.