Three exemplary books comes to mind. You don't have to accept all their interpretations or judgments to commend the book as comprehensive, scrupulously fair, and judicious. The standard thing to say about a symposium is that the contributions are uneven, or not of equal merit. This volume is no exception. Grenz agrees, but he reverses the order.
Evangelicalism is first and foremost a shared experience, vision, or story.
I couldn't agree more. But I can't help thinking that I've heard it before. Differences there may be. But the threefold emphasis on experience, community, and context was precisely Schleiermacher's contribution to evangelical dogmatics. Successive waves of neoorthodox and postmodernist attacks on him have submerged his contribution beneath an ocean of misunderstandings.