num_pages: 48
description: What is an evangelical . . . and has he lost his mind? Carl Trueman wrestles with those two provocative questions and concludes that modern evangelicals emphasize experience and activism at the expense of theology. Their minds go fuzzy as they downplay doctrine. The result is a world in which everyone from Joel Osteen to Brian McLaren to John MacArthur may be called an evangelical.Fifteen years ago in The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind  historian Mark Noll warned that evangelical Christians had abandoned the intellectual aspects of their faith. Christians were neither prepared nor inclined to enter into intellectual debates and had become culturally marginalized. Trueman argues that today religious beliefs are more scandalous than they have been for many yearsbut for different reasons than Noll foresaw. In fact the real problem now is exactly the opposite of what Noll evangelicals dont lack a mind but rather an agreed upon evangel. Although known as gospel people evangelicals no longer share any consensus on the gospels meaning.Provocative and persuasive Truemans indictment of evangelicalism also suggests a better way forward for those theologically conservative Protestants famously known as evangelicals.
language: English
title: The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
publisher: None